This has been a really cool week.
First, I decided to commute every day rather than stay in a hotel. That was the right choice. For starters, the round trip was 111.1 miles. Exactly. Every day. I set the trip when I left my house Monday morning.
Thursday it would have read 444.4 when I got home, but I made a short detour off the route for coffee on the drive down. Still, just knowing it would have been that, and fives today, well just cool.
And the drive itself was beautiful. We had that obscenely beautiful moon Monday morning, and every day the sun rose just as I crossed the state line and crossed the lake.
Two mornings there was fog on the lake.
And the customers I was training had their shit together in a big way. And in small ways. Which of course then add up to the big ways.
Case in point, one morning I was standing outside when a guy drove up on a forklift. He parked it, went and got the gas can (which was properly labelled and in a neat row with other fuel cans) and took the can to the truck. He then went inside and got a small absorbent mat, and put it on the ground before he poured the gas.
He didn't spill any, but the mat was there anyway.
Then he put the mat back in the shop, the gas can back where it belonged, and went on his way.
Later in the day I was talking to him, and told him that was a really nice thing to see.
At first he was stunned that I had noticed. Then he thanked me for noticing and said they all try to do the right things.
I congratulated the whole lot of them. Twice.
Last company I saw that knocked my socks off was in 2005.
Why am I not surprised that the trend is five years.
And they liked me too. Asked if they could ask for me the next time they need training, and I said absolutely.
Just cool.
