Well, Tonya Flaherty never called him that Friday. Or at any other point. However, the highly entertaining email exchange continues unfettered, such as when Edgar inquires about this line of incense which mysteriously appears in expected fashion, upon the shelves of Liberty Avenue. Attempting to ask Sam about the origin of these, which feature a different semi-nude female on each separate aroma, only produces the expected incoherent answer which leads a listener to question his grip upon reality. Which is maybe fitting, considering some of these varieties have either vague or overt drug related names, like the package marked Opium. Let it be said, however, that some also feature charming little slogans, such as, Don’t Burn S**t! Burn Westwood! Whatever the case, Tonya’s not here, which leads Edgar to eventually emailing her with his burning questions, concerning this “inappropriate incense,” as Edgar terms it, along with some other random things. She answers the following morning:
Haha! You are a trip! Best emails ever. Please tell me the drug references and naked bodies aren’t just my department. The curse words you reference have to be the Westwood stuff. Showed it to Cody when he was still here, he about fell over, lol. But yes these are allegedly opium scented which ironically still seems to be appropriate and I do get those certain kinds of people that say patchouli smells like pot. However, they always, always call it the ‘m’ word. (Didn’t know if we had an email filter that would pick out that word) Yea for the bible belt. D@mn dirty hippies, running around with their ‘m’ being lazy! My fave inappropriate incense was a women dressed up as cat woman with a whip and the ‘Lucky Lady’ incense with a little woman with pasties, rofl. Don’t know why it was such an issue now. Surely it wasn’t just noticed. Tell me, was the “way to go” sarcasm or not, lol. I peeped at the checkbook and we no longer have it so I’m assuming Bellwether does. Disregard the one from the 6th as that’s not it, it’s the previous one. I forgot the last thing I was going to say so you maybe getting a truncated random addendum, or maybe not, lol. Thanx a ton, Edgardo!
~Pinkie
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://jasonmcgathey.wordpress.com/2021/03/08/tales-of-a-scorched-coffee-pot-chapter-22/
