Monday, April 19, 2010

The King's New Coach

In a land far far away in another galaxy our guy who bought things used to buy the royal coaches for the king and his court. The king called one day (actually the king didn't call himself, he had an eighty year blue haired lady call because everyone knows kings are too busy to talk to anyone directly.) and wanted a new coach. The old coach had too many miles and when it was parked in the official parking lot, it no longer looked as shiny and new as the Vice Chancellors' or even as good as the Captain of the Guards' SUV. There were special requirements that made it something only our guy who bought things could probably find. The king had a chauffeur that was a giant. Why did the king have a giant for a chauffeur, you might ask? Well, because he liked the guy and because he could no longer drive himself. So our guy who bought things looked all over the world and found some very expensive large coaches that had GPS and Bluetooth and a ten foot high steering wheel and they all turned out to be too fancy. So then one evening our guy who bought things went to the grocery store and since the grocery store was next to the airport, he spotted all these limo drivers drinking cappuccinos in the grocery store parking lot waiting to go pick up important people at the airport, so he bought the king an airport limo with a conservative black shiny paint job with a top of faux leather and a ten foot high steering wheel and had all the gadgets added. And he was very proud of himself.
Well, he wasn't quite done, because it turned out that every summer, the king went to his summer house and because the king was old and not always feeling well, he had a trailer full of equipment that they had to take with him to keep him alive during the summer. Our guy who bought things didn't want to know what kind of medical equipment was in the trailer, because he didn't think anyone was supposed to know, but also he was afraid if he found out they would want him to buy the king new and shiny medical equipment as well. But what they did need was a trailer hitch added to the royal coach to pull the trailer. So the eighty year blue haired lady requested that our guy come in person and our guy was presented with a shiny cast iron removable trailer hitch and ball wrapped gently in fine tissue paper. It turned out that the king had personally designed this trailer hitch and however the entire hitch apparatus was finally configured it had to accommodate the king's own trailer hitch. So our guy who buys things drove all over until he found a blacksmith that could create an entire new trailer hitch apparatus that would match the king's own trailer hitch. The giant chauffeur did have to drive the coach over himself to have it put on, which meant that the king had to stay home that day, but what are you going to do? When our guy went to return the king's own trailer hitch, they sent the coach for him and he got to ride to the palace with the king's own trailer hitch in his lap and everyone he passed was duly impressed. We will omit the coach's name here out of respect for his privacy and besides, he worked very hard to get our guy and the king's very own trailer hitch back to the king.

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