A Walk Through Time

A Happy Grey

Daniel
I can't wait to go pick up my vehicle from the shop. They will have it ready at six this evening and I insisted on picking it up from the installer's garage. They got it ready faster because they had to work over for Christmas holidays whatever that means. She has been very busy and completed all the installs a week early. I arrive and a petite blue eyed brunette greets me and hands me the warranties and instruction manuals on all my upgrades and took me through everything and explained everything to me. Mom drove me here and actually recognized the girl as our postal person we have had for a year.
Alice
I recognized our postal person and she had no idea who I was and I thought it was strange until our real postal person smiled and waved at me behind the glass window between the lobby and the shop. She came out to say hi to me and I realize they are identical twins. Daniel was talking shop with her sister I am assuming. Augie is short for Augusta and we thought at first it was the manager of the shops name. But it is owned by Anastasia and Augusta Steele. Both postal people and installers. I paid them for their work and added a nice tip as well. Daniel wanted to see the shop, so they gave him a tour of it.
Anastasia
I hated to rush the Grey family out, but we had to complete the four other cars in an hour and they are all coming in an hour and a half to puck their cars up. Augie gives me a look and I excuse myself and say thanks for the business and head back to get everything completed. Augie is more personable than I am. I want things completed tonight. We have ten new installs to do in the next week and it was going to be hard and sleep is at a premium. So we are going to be able to take a week to go to Aspen for skiing. A friend of ours invited us to go with her and her brother. Katherine Kavanagh and the Kavanagh's are headed up there for Christmas. We were lucky to get the time off for the trip. We scheduled the time together and we had guys want to work for the extra holiday pay, they have children they want to get Christmas for. Augie and I don't have anyone but each other. Our parents were pronounced legally dead after a shootout in broad daylight that killed a lot of people.
Augie
I love this work and delivering to the homes for Christmas. I loved seeing Daniel Grey smiling as he started his car and  showed him all his new installations and his mom was impressed. He asked if it was easy to learn to do my job and I said it takes a lot of patience to learn all of the different aspects to install the equipment competently. He asks if he can come over to watch us work, I hesitate and say he needs to get his parents permission and he can't bring any friends over. He can bring any member of his family though and he needs to adhere to the rules set up for safety in my shop and his parents need to sign a waiver of liability for us. I hand it out of my drawer. We get people from dealerships trying to find out how to do what we do, but they can't seem to catch on how to do it properly.
Alice
I will chat with Herb and if it is okay we will set up some time for him to be here and when he has to be home by.
Anastasia
That will be fine. Maybe after the holidays, we are taking a week off for a trip. Then we go back to both jobs immediately. We will be playing catch up so if we can't show you things then use the time to do homework until we can. That's if you are allowed and we get the waiver of liability.
Daniel
Thanks Ana and Augie and hopefully I can learn how to do installations as well.
Anastasia
Here are our phone numbers to call us about coming over and see if we have the time okay?
Daniel
Yes thanks.
Augie
I hand Alice a card with both of our numbers on it.
Alice
Okay well time to go, people are waiting for us outside. I take the cards from Augie and we head out to the cars. Daniel is thrilled and wants to go to celebrate, but he has homework to complete tonight so we need to head home for family dinner.
Herbert
I arrive as Alice and Daniel drive up to the house. I feel my spine vibrate from how loud Daniel has his sound system turned up. Elliott, Mia and Christian arrive as Alice and I disappear into the house. All four of our children are checking out the vehicle. I can't believe we allowed him to get a paneled van with some favorite characters that he likes on the side of it. He wants to use it for different things, hopefully not to take a girl out in it. Don't want him getting his girlfriend pregnant, or any girl at his age.
Elliott
I have to say the van is very nice, it turned out very nice. Just don't do anything that might cause any newborn babies. You know where I am headed with this don't you?
Daniel
Too late Andrea is late. We haven't found out for sure and the van is ready for children just in case.
Christian
Wait are you kidding me, it is a good that Mia didn't hear this, she will run in and tell mom and dad. It will be better if you talk to them first. Then find out if she is pregnant and go from there. Still going to college right?
Daniel
Yes we both are and I am working on something that might bring in a lot of money if I can catch on to the job.
Elliott
Tell them tonight and make sure you get the pregnancy test done. Let me guess Andrea Lewis is the Andrea you are talking about right?
Daniel
I tell him yes and tell him that I think David will not be happy at all about it and her brothers definitely won't. Ginger and Dana could care less about Andrea. She never got a sixteenth birthday party.
Herbert
Daniel tells Alice and I about the possible grandchild and we are in shock and then we suggest we invite the Lewis family over and talk to them all privately.