“Wow!”
“Mitzi. I guess a clarified introduction is in order. Glenn Bates is top dog of AgTech, which is the parent company of Baler Inc.”
“I paid Paul twenty-five thousand dollars for that video when he was sixteen. Every time we run that video on public media, we pay Paul two hundred dollars.”
“I’ve never heard anything like that!”
“It’s the tractor you drove this morning Mitzi. I’m the driver in the video.”
“Oh my goodness sakes alive!”
“Are the waivers signed off, so you can have the thumb-drive Mr. Bates?”
“Yes, I talked with your Dad earlier today. Call me Glenn, you earned my respect two years ago.”
“You knew who Glenn Bates was all along?”
“That’s true Mitzi. I set up that video two years ago. Uncle Bob helped me get some of the gear I needed to make it happen. Then Uncle Bob showed AgTech a copy of the DVD. I ended up signing the rights to use the DVD over to AgTech, and they pay me royalties every time they use it. Glenn Bates signed the contract, and wrote the twenty-five thousand dollar check. Today is the first time I’ve seen him.”
“You weren’t surprised to see him.”
“Glenn reassigned his best engineer, Evan Cole to Chief Engineer in Baler Inc., and Evan fired every engineer and tech in Baler R&D except one of each. Glenn was already aware of what I was doing to improve their baler pickup.”
“How?”
“It’s one of those coincidences that clicks in place at the right time. Uncle Bob and Glenn are war buddies, they’ve probably saved each other’s lives a dozen times.”
“That’s a lot.”
“The other side was using real bullets.”
“When you put it like that, yipes!”
We got home at 9:00pm and stripped and drug our butts to the shower and held each other upright under the warm water.
“I don’t want to disappoint you Mitzi. I don’t want to get started tonight and fall asleep in the middle.”
‘I’m tired too. We’ll figure this out some day. I’m OK with this, I love you dearly. We’ll be fine.”
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