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<Hardware Store, Key-cutter here>
Background #1
There is a locksmith just across the street from our store. As in, you leave the store, turn your head a little to the left, and *bam* ... Locksmith.
Our store doesn't have every blank, no, but it can do most of 'em. No Medeco, no car keys with chips in 'em, not every kind of Master Lock key. Presumably, a Locksmith should be able to do this stuff. I'd suppose, anyway.
Background #2
I'm there on Sundays and Tuesdays and Fridays, the latter of which are truck days. Sundays are obviously very busy days, being weekends. Saturdays are even busier.
The person who taught me how to make keys two years ago is there on Saturdays to tend to the frothing masses.
On Sundays, I find myself being the one to fix the keys that were made the day before that didn't work. They come back on Tuesdays specifically to thank me for the job well done. Makes me beam.
I would also occasionally get a customer who would come in to the store entirely frazzled and distraught, shows me a key, and declares that the locksmith across the street actually sent them to us because we had this blank and can make them this key. I stare at it, and contemplate this bizarre event, and look in the rack of keys for the appropriate blank. Lo and behold, I'm able to make it. I do so, and wonder why a professional locksmith across the street is sending business to their less professional competitor.
Probably because I send the customers with the keys that -I- can't make across the street to ensure that the key I can't make here, is made over there. Karma, maybe.
Background #1
There is a locksmith just across the street from our store. As in, you leave the store, turn your head a little to the left, and *bam* ... Locksmith.
Our store doesn't have every blank, no, but it can do most of 'em. No Medeco, no car keys with chips in 'em, not every kind of Master Lock key. Presumably, a Locksmith should be able to do this stuff. I'd suppose, anyway.
Background #2
I'm there on Sundays and Tuesdays and Fridays, the latter of which are truck days. Sundays are obviously very busy days, being weekends. Saturdays are even busier.
The person who taught me how to make keys two years ago is there on Saturdays to tend to the frothing masses.
On Sundays, I find myself being the one to fix the keys that were made the day before that didn't work. They come back on Tuesdays specifically to thank me for the job well done. Makes me beam.
I would also occasionally get a customer who would come in to the store entirely frazzled and distraught, shows me a key, and declares that the locksmith across the street actually sent them to us because we had this blank and can make them this key. I stare at it, and contemplate this bizarre event, and look in the rack of keys for the appropriate blank. Lo and behold, I'm able to make it. I do so, and wonder why a professional locksmith across the street is sending business to their less professional competitor.
Probably because I send the customers with the keys that -I- can't make across the street to ensure that the key I can't make here, is made over there. Karma, maybe.
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