LEW THORPE’S BODY PARTS
Lew Thorpe lives on the East bench in South Ogden. His home is only accessible by a remote controlled electronic gate. He lives there with his lovely wife, just now can’t remember her name. He has a full time gardener, a house painter, along with several cleaning ladies. At times he has made lots of money.
Lew Thorpe, “Mr. Super Duper,” has the largest automotive parts and paint sales company in Utah, at least for the moment. Many people doubt if he will be able to retain his sales leadership this year.
A person by the name of Hugh Downs, who is Lew’s sidekick at the five day a week coffee meetings, can be called upon at any minute by Lew for consultation, even when Bill Arnold is talking. The two of them like to share adventurous stories about their humble beginnings. Life at the McDonald’s coffee is normally blab, blab…about the speed of a Dewey Drone with its gears in neutral, but this week there was suddenly an uncomfortable change. Word filtered out through one of Lew’s cleaning ladies that Lew, who has been in the past an expert of the automotive parts sales world, has been underperforming a tad in the number of parts and paint sales for the first two quarters of this year.
Lew the proud owner of “Ogden Auto Parts” was cooking dinner at the entry way of his court yard, unlike your everyday kitchen, throwing pans and food around as if it we’re going out of style, when he first heard about the sales slump at his business from one of the cleaning ladies.
Is it true, is there a leak in the dam, have the numbers gone down river? Lew pondered, I didn’t win twenty consecutive Blue Ribbons Automotive Gold Awards and free Hawaii trips for my employees watching TV, drinking beer and eating popcorn. It took me over seven long years of hard work before I topped Larry Miller in sales, to become Utah’s top auto parts and paint sales, and 2012 is still my goal.
No matter it's become trendy to be a Lew doubter, considering his age, recent by-pass surgery, last month (a stent in his carotid artery) and so on.
Utah Auto Association secretary, Kay Arnold, noted the other day that he's an unLew one in twenty-one odds to win the Utah Auto Association Sales Award this year. More recently, a poll was taken in which only one expert picked Lew to be a loser in the Kings Personality Parts Sales Spa Bunch contest. Add in automotive analyst, Lil' Wayne Morris, who totally blew off Lew's chances for this year’s Playboy Magazine “Auto-mate Man Of the Year Award,” and it’s quite conclusive, now is the time for Lew to step down alongside Sarah Palin.
Amid this cloud of underestimation, Lew surfaced Monday morning in the Ogden City McDonald’s (39th and Washington Blvd.) He looked, as always, Lew-tastic. He wore an understated navy blue ensemble that contrasted elegantly against the new Lesbian New Yorker's open look.
McDonald’s is a rehab center for the many Monday through Friday Lew coffee fans. They come and go between the times of the first sip of coffee starting at 8 am and the last sip at 11:30 am.
One incident at Monday's coffee meeting very noticeable indeed, was a Lew between-the-legs, middle finger, which flabbergasted all the customers and the McDonalds cleaning lady too. The finger thing is a stirring reminder of the taken-for-granted great salesmanship that still lurks within the eighty-year-old one time, many years ago, South Ogden JC President. In the middle of the same coffee meeting, Lew nimbly jumped upon a table and calmly stated,
"I'm going to win the sales parts contest this year! There is none as good as my company!"
Bill Arnold, the number one seated coffee talker, and well trained motion maker at Foot Printer’s meetings made the motion that, “Lew is the greatest, great, and most powerful! A W wizard! He is the people’s choice. Mr. Automotive Utah.”
He was seconded by the cleaning lady who was standing behind the window. John Stone “Stated all discussion is closed.”
It’s Lew’s curse to have had a top notch successful business for so long. Now it is no longer helpful having whispered compliments from cleaning ladies and Mr. Arnold.
Lew along with his lovely wife flew his plane out of town, a little discouraged this weekend. His falconer, Zeroes stayed behind guarding the entry gate to acting as an extra watch dog. You can’t make this stuff up.
His plan is to next month take a boat ride down the Blue Danube into the Black Sea. Will there be enough time to plan a come back? Will he be back as a hero teacher of his Sunday school class or be disqualified from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for eternity?
Can you once again change the tide Lew? The doubters are multiplying.
All that’s behind Lew, it’s been over a year now he’s been abroad Nova Scotia, Greenland and back, had a hip replacement and many visits with former BYU football coach Lavel Edwards. Now again a regular attender at Mc Donald’s weekly coffee. When this story was first written
To be continued...
KARL WALLACE
To read more Karl Wallace stories: Karlwallaceblog.blogspot.com
Lew Thorpe lives on the East bench in South Ogden. His home is only accessible by a remote controlled electronic gate. He lives there with his lovely wife, just now can’t remember her name. He has a full time gardener, a house painter, along with several cleaning ladies. At times he has made lots of money.
Lew Thorpe, “Mr. Super Duper,” has the largest automotive parts and paint sales company in Utah, at least for the moment. Many people doubt if he will be able to retain his sales leadership this year.
A person by the name of Hugh Downs, who is Lew’s sidekick at the five day a week coffee meetings, can be called upon at any minute by Lew for consultation, even when Bill Arnold is talking. The two of them like to share adventurous stories about their humble beginnings. Life at the McDonald’s coffee is normally blab, blab…about the speed of a Dewey Drone with its gears in neutral, but this week there was suddenly an uncomfortable change. Word filtered out through one of Lew’s cleaning ladies that Lew, who has been in the past an expert of the automotive parts sales world, has been underperforming a tad in the number of parts and paint sales for the first two quarters of this year.
Lew the proud owner of “Ogden Auto Parts” was cooking dinner at the entry way of his court yard, unlike your everyday kitchen, throwing pans and food around as if it we’re going out of style, when he first heard about the sales slump at his business from one of the cleaning ladies.
Is it true, is there a leak in the dam, have the numbers gone down river? Lew pondered, I didn’t win twenty consecutive Blue Ribbons Automotive Gold Awards and free Hawaii trips for my employees watching TV, drinking beer and eating popcorn. It took me over seven long years of hard work before I topped Larry Miller in sales, to become Utah’s top auto parts and paint sales, and 2012 is still my goal.
No matter it's become trendy to be a Lew doubter, considering his age, recent by-pass surgery, last month (a stent in his carotid artery) and so on.
Utah Auto Association secretary, Kay Arnold, noted the other day that he's an unLew one in twenty-one odds to win the Utah Auto Association Sales Award this year. More recently, a poll was taken in which only one expert picked Lew to be a loser in the Kings Personality Parts Sales Spa Bunch contest. Add in automotive analyst, Lil' Wayne Morris, who totally blew off Lew's chances for this year’s Playboy Magazine “Auto-mate Man Of the Year Award,” and it’s quite conclusive, now is the time for Lew to step down alongside Sarah Palin.
Amid this cloud of underestimation, Lew surfaced Monday morning in the Ogden City McDonald’s (39th and Washington Blvd.) He looked, as always, Lew-tastic. He wore an understated navy blue ensemble that contrasted elegantly against the new Lesbian New Yorker's open look.
McDonald’s is a rehab center for the many Monday through Friday Lew coffee fans. They come and go between the times of the first sip of coffee starting at 8 am and the last sip at 11:30 am.
One incident at Monday's coffee meeting very noticeable indeed, was a Lew between-the-legs, middle finger, which flabbergasted all the customers and the McDonalds cleaning lady too. The finger thing is a stirring reminder of the taken-for-granted great salesmanship that still lurks within the eighty-year-old one time, many years ago, South Ogden JC President. In the middle of the same coffee meeting, Lew nimbly jumped upon a table and calmly stated,
"I'm going to win the sales parts contest this year! There is none as good as my company!"
Bill Arnold, the number one seated coffee talker, and well trained motion maker at Foot Printer’s meetings made the motion that, “Lew is the greatest, great, and most powerful! A W wizard! He is the people’s choice. Mr. Automotive Utah.”
He was seconded by the cleaning lady who was standing behind the window. John Stone “Stated all discussion is closed.”
It’s Lew’s curse to have had a top notch successful business for so long. Now it is no longer helpful having whispered compliments from cleaning ladies and Mr. Arnold.
Lew along with his lovely wife flew his plane out of town, a little discouraged this weekend. His falconer, Zeroes stayed behind guarding the entry gate to acting as an extra watch dog. You can’t make this stuff up.
His plan is to next month take a boat ride down the Blue Danube into the Black Sea. Will there be enough time to plan a come back? Will he be back as a hero teacher of his Sunday school class or be disqualified from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for eternity?
Can you once again change the tide Lew? The doubters are multiplying.
All that’s behind Lew, it’s been over a year now he’s been abroad Nova Scotia, Greenland and back, had a hip replacement and many visits with former BYU football coach Lavel Edwards. Now again a regular attender at Mc Donald’s weekly coffee. When this story was first written
To be continued...
KARL WALLACE
To read more Karl Wallace stories: Karlwallaceblog.blogspot.com
