Love my liquor store

Just outside smoking with my wife. She's on the phone with I don't know who, but starts into praise of my liquor store. How the owner has helped our family. Kiting checks, essentially, but indeed, that has been the end result. We've bought formula and diapers before thanks to him holding a check till Friday or whatever.

He knows I'll be back. I've even gotten him to deliver before, though I felt bad when it was his cleaning person who showed up with the bags, her whole family in the minivan.

This is how ecosystems work though.