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Slim Randles' Home Country
Growing a fertilizer business
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[April
13, 2013]
We were a bit
perplexed ... stunned, really ... when we poured into the Mule Barn
truck stop coffee shop at the crack of dawn and saw our fertilizer
mogul, Dewey Decker, in earnest conversation at a booth with his
girlfriend, Emily Stickles, and they had papers on the table, wedged
between the coffee cups and the empty plates where sweet rolls had
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 "I'm telling you, Honey ..." she said, then looked up and saw us and
smiled. "Morning, guys!""Emily, Dewey," Doc said. "How goes it?"
"Just fine, Doc," Dewey said. "Emily has some ideas on how to
help my fertilizer business."
Doc looked serious. "Dewey ... would these ideas have anything to
do with sharp objects or machinery?"
"No, of course not," he said.
"Well ..." said Emily. "Not for Dewey to handle, anyway."
"As your physician, Dewey, I'm very happy to hear that."
Over our first two cups at the philosophy counter, we kept
looking back over our shoulders at the two conspirators in the
booth. It was still a serious conversation.
"What do you think of that?" Steve said.
"Beats me," said Herb. "I just hope she realizes how
accident-prone he is."
"She knows," Doc said, remembering the times Dewey had stepped on
Emily's feet, and the headlong crash to the ground that brought
these lovers into this happy relationship. "Believe me, she knows.
Dewey's put more than a few bruises on Emily since they've known
each other."
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"Wonder what she has in mind for him?" said Herb.
"Success, I'm guessing," said Steve.
"In the cow manure business?"
"Hey, I told him before he started," Doc said, "that he needed to
get into something that didn't require dangerous machinery, and to
work with a product that is worth exactly nothing. And he did."
We wondered just how far up the ladder of success a man could
climb with a shovel and a corral full of ... product.
[Text from file received from Slim Randles]
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