I Was Afraid Of This

We have used the same local attorney since we were married. I called them last week and ordered a little work for them to complete for my corporation. In today's mail I received a letter from them with a cover letter and copies of what they had done.
It was on their letterhead with my address and name at the top left of the letter. Instead of starting with Dear Cliff, it began Dear Golkd.
I began laughing. I was by myself in the house and always feel silly laughing by myself. I first checked to see if I were to place my hands on the keyboard, on the wrong keys, if I could duplicate the mistake. Nope.
So the following went through my mind. In small communities we know a lot of people or at least know all about them. Nicknames are handed out at random for certain bodily characteristics or a play on their name or an embarrassing event they caused. Sometimes folks don't know about their nicknames. I never knew if I had a nickname or not. Until now. My attorney's secretary apparently doesn't know the small town rules. You aren't supposed to tell. See you later.
Love, Golkd

City Wide Garage Sale

Last weekend our home town held their first annual 'City Wide Garage Sale.' I'm sure this is old hat to a lot of you but the city wide concept was new to us. Everyone have a sale joined in on the cost of the advertising. It was a full page add in area newpapers listing directions to each sale, a map, what they had for sale, and the hours of operation on Friday and/or Saturday. Most of this junk is ...er merchandise pictured is ours. We held our sale at my Mother In-law's garage in town. Believe it or not we took about 3 loads in and didn't bring anything back except our tables and a couple of those saddles. The saddles weren't going to be given away as some items were. Marilyn turned into quite the business woman on Sat early afternoon. She discovered the phrase that pays. She found that the words, "Oh just take it, it's free" worked very nicely. I think it was a huge success judging by the fact that it was hard to drive around town that day because of all of the traffic and parked cars. The parked cars wouldn't have been a problem with the motors running like that but leaving the doors open created a few problems.