Saturday, January 05, 2008

Why I love living in the south...

I have wanted to use words to tell a little story so here goes...

On Christmas eve eve my Mom came with me to shoot an assignment in the small SC community of Pamplico. It was simply a few building mugs. Anyway being the antique/junk shop junkies that mom and I are we stopped at the Olde Junque Shoppe in Pamplico on the way back to the office and met the owner Maxie Bazen. Mom and I wandered around for the better part of an hour looked carefully at the tons of wonderful stuff Maxie has in his shop and selected quite a few fun relics for our respective collections. we found a cookbook from the '50's my mom had been looking for since she lost her copy in college, a great fairy tale book for Zabe, a really cool needle point for me and many other neat things...

When we went to pay for our wonderful relics Maxie told us that he only takes cash and checks... needless to say mom and i were caring no cash and only credit cards. Maxie totaled up our finds, as the grand total came to $59.00 he said don't worry about it just mail me a check....

This is something that would never happen in New England... it amazes me, with no reason to trust us aside from the fact we spent time in his shop this man trusted us. He hasn't cashed my check yet but I'll be happy when he does. I can't wait to go back, Maxie Rocks !!!!

Trust is a wonderful thing we are all too often missing in our daily life..