Mom and Dad left after almost everyone else, but they finally made their way out, even though I could tell the idea of going home didn’t really appeal. In what I hoped would be a help, I suggested they check out the new TV show Clarkson’s Farm so that they could laugh, like I had, at how a car enthusiast approached farming with a Lamborghini tractor. It would be good distraction if they could manage to let themselves be distracted.
Clarkson’s FarmMarcus and Rocky lingered as I did the final closing duties, each of them busying themselves enough to assuage any of the guilt I might have had about their presence. By the time Marcus set the alarm and I locked the door behind the three of us, the store was spic and span. The thought of coming into the shop with a completely clean slate of work
