You hadda do post this when I didn't have any time, didn't you....
And it hadda be so good....


Two tiny opinionated comments :

"Not yet!" the boy said cheerfully. "He just moved here."

"Has he now." <-technically that’s a question.




Back in the shop, I switched on the lights and settled myself in a wing-chair near the door, feet propped on a battered ottoman. I had planned on reading, but the boy's questions had <delete, not necessary, sentence would be more interesting without. .