{"id":5778,"date":"2020-11-04T16:05:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T16:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/?p=5778"},"modified":"2020-11-04T16:07:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T16:07:20","slug":"you-can-lead-a-horse-to-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/2020\/11\/04\/you-can-lead-a-horse-to-water\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Lead a Horse to Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5778\" class=\"elementor elementor-5778\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b04a7f8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b04a7f8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ee3e4f2\" data-id=\"ee3e4f2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3db388c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"3db388c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/RU483.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-5779\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/RU483.png 700w, https:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/RU483-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fc684da elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fc684da\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>The middle Wisconsin sky was cloudless, and the sun was lifting high overhead on the second Monday of January when Tom Morrow clocked in for work at hometown motors. He was in a good mood. He managed to keep Holiday spending within budget this year and he whistled a cheery melody while reading a sticky note tacked to the front of his toolbox.<\/p><p>Morning Tom! Remember your new intern, Mitch starts today.<\/p><p>The note was signed Bobby.<\/p><p>Bobby Matthews was the service manager at Hometown Motors, the Local dealership where Tom worked.<\/p><p>Bobby was not the dealership owner, but the Service Department was his to run.<\/p><p>He had earned that responsibility before the new addition was built when there were only four service bays and an alignment rack instead of the twenty-bay shop that he designed, and the owners built.<\/p><p>Bobby was always pro-active when it came to expanding the shop and keeping work coming through the door. Bobby worked with area Technical Colleges and hired students as interns. The student earned credit and a few bucks. In exchange, Bobby had his most experienced Technicians mentor the student. Teaching them good work ethics, dealership specific procedures, acceptable attitudes, and that \u201cService\u201d is not just the name of the department, it\u2019s also an adjective. It is what his team does. Bobby called it, \u201cHome Growing a Hometown Technician,\u201d and it worked. Most of the time.<\/p><p>Tom waited until Mitch had his toolbox wheeled into place and his first job of the morning in his stall before talking a lazily sauntered stroll across the shop floor. Wiping his hand on a shop towel that he casually slipped into his back pocket, Tom extended his right hand toward Mitch and smiled under his bushy \u201cSam Elliot\u201d style mustache.<\/p><p>\u201cGood morning, Mitch. I\u2019m Tom, and I\u2019ll be mentoring you during your nine-week probation here at Hometown.\u201d<\/p><p>Mitch turned to face Tom, leaned his hips pack against his toolbox, and looked Tom up and down slowly before spitting a wad of tobacco between Tom\u2019s feet.<\/p><p>\u201cI know who you are, Tom. Bobby told me about you being top guns here, and that I could recognize you by that big-assed cookie duster growing under your nose and the shit-eating grin you\u2019re wearing. I\u2019ll have you know I\u2019ll be graduating at the top of the class come June. I don\u2019t need your stinking help, so you can just mosey on back over to your stall and stay there.\u201d<\/p><p>Tom\u2019s eyes followed the ugly tobacco wad from Mitch\u2019s mouth to the floor where it spread out and just looked at it for a long moment. When Tom lifted his head, his smile was still there, just as cheerful as before.\u00a0 This wasn\u2019t Tom\u2019s first day on the beach. Tom had mentored over half dozen students. Some caught on quickly, others never did. Always smiling, Tom\u2019s gunmetal blue eyes focused into Mitch\u2019s before speaking in a friendly tone.<\/p><p>\u201cI get it, Mitch. You\u2019ve worked hard and long and you\u2019re good or Bobby wouldn\u2019t have taken you on here. There\u2019s nothing I can teach you. I get a little bit extra in my pay envelope for trying, so before I go back to my stall, I figure I owe Bobby and Hometown to leave you a few pieces of advice. One, that language is not going to bode well here. Everybody cusses now and again when something goes haywire, but in common conversations, it won\u2019t fly.\u201d<\/p><p>Tom saw the daggers in the young man\u2019s eyes begin to glimmer, but he continued.<\/p><p>\u201cAnother thing. Bobby hates tobacco. If he sees that mess on the floor, he most definitely WILL fine you for every wad he counts, so get yourself a can.\u201d<\/p><p>By this time Mitch\u2019s body language was akin to a volcano ready to erupt so Tom started to turn away.<\/p><p>Tom paused, looked back at Mitch, and pulled the shop towel from his back pocket and tossed it to Mitch.<\/p><p>\u201cThat\u2019s to help you clean up that mess you made on the floor.\u201d<\/p><p>That is about how it went for six of Mitch\u2019s nine-week probation. 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