this week we have mostly been...

It had been a quiet week here at Sam Haine’s business has been ticking over nicely. Two and I have been working on a spring clean of the children, astrology and occult sections. They meet at a rather unruly junction mid shop, and as Sam supports a Venn diagram effect to book placement one shelf sports a solitary book entitled “Dr Dee’s first book of planets and their placements”.

The high point of the week was spotting Strange Brian talking to a young and attractive woman. No so unusual you would think for a grown man to talk to a grown woman, but rather a breakthrough for Strange Brian whose previous attempts to communicate have often looked dangerously like stalking.

We were rather thrown by an unexpected arrival this morning. Sam had disappeared about business and we weren’t expecting him back until mid afternoon. So we were thrown when this guy, quite young, blond, far too sharply dressed wandered in asking to see him. I assumed he had something to sell and explained that although the owner was away I could look at his stock. To which he smirked and said

“I bet you could, darling “
Ick.
Seeing my unimpressed face, he stopped smirking and said
“Just tell Uncle Sam, Harry is here to see him.”
“Harry Haines?”
Said Two who had by now wandered over.
“No” he said like he was talking to simpletons “Scratch. Harry Scratch “.
When we final convinced him Sam was really out, he scowled, told us to be sure and tell his Uncle Sam that Harry had called and would call back and stomped off.

Sam has a nephew, wow. He always said he had no family and was heartily glad of it.
Mind you if my nephew was a charmless as Harry I’d disclaim him too.