07/10/08
Pepe owns a little gift and sandwich shop near the Savaii Peace Corps office and ferry wharf. As an entrepreneurial woman she was eager to sell to tourists at the wharf t-shirts, which the boy in our family hand printed. Since we didn’t know what would sell, it was on a consignment basis. Test sales seemed good as we waited for the tourist season to begin in May. Then in April, I saw that Pepe’s shop was locked with our merchandise inside. It has been locked ever since with Pepe in New Zealand for an impermanent period of time.
While having a brew with some Peace Corps Trainees, my phone rang. It was Pepe from New Zealand and wanting to pay me for the locked t-shirts. Her brother was sick and she had no idea when she would return. Would I please e-mail her the amount owed.
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