In the town of Hazleton, this Monday morning, Gloria was just opening her shop, and her girls were showing up for work one by one, whichever one was closest to the phone would take the call and jot down the appointments, she had a nice bunch of girls working for her and best of all she trusted each one of them, she had a good business, and her girls made a decent living and she knew they would do nothing to jeopardize it for any of them.
They did plenty of gossiping, kidding, consoling if needed as in all beauty salon's across America, and this day was no different, they all wanted to know about her dates with the new man in her life, this "Demo Man" she had met on line, who as it turned out was Chad Benton, of the local racing circuit, the macho handsome man that got his picture in the local paper more than once, and they all had seen and heard of him, in their eyes, their boss was going out with a celebrity.
By now the girls knew about as much as Gloria did about Chad and about the things that made them so compatible, their love of fast cars and cool cars, and also their love of animals, and that kept them al1 interested for a time but, what they really wanted to know are the more personal things, like is he a good kisser, is he a gentleman, she shared a few things with them, but it was all still new and she wanted to keep some details for herself and she did.
She told her girls then that, she may be a little getting back after lunch because she'd be stopping by the beauty supply place they needed some things, and of course they all started placing orders at once, then they all burst out laughing.
Gloria left the shop around noon, she stopped at a small cafe and had some lunch, then she left her car parked where it was and walked to the beauty supply place not far from the cafe, she went in said, "hi to Becky the owner" then went about gathering up the things she needed, she had quite a cart full by the time got back up to the counter. Becky said, "Is that it for today Gloria?" "I believe so, if not you know, I'll be back next week if not sooner."
Becky rang up all her items, and Gloria took her wallet out of her purse, opened it reached for her credit card and said, "Oh My God it's gone" Becky said, "what?" she said, "my credit card is gone" of course Becky knowing her so well, said, "don't you worry about this I have the total, you just take it all with you and go cancel your credit card and do whatever you must do to get it straightened out. Don't worry; I know you’re good for it". Gloria thanked her and hauled all of her bags back to her car, thinking, I should have moved it down here although it was only a few shops away.