Last week was a busy week for the Horsmans. Kevin 'showed' our house on Thursday night, to two sets of possible buyers, and then showed it again, on Friday night. Someone was booked to come and see it on Saturday night, too, but the Friday night people came back Saturday afternoon and bought it.
I made myself scarce as Kevin exerted his not-insignificant powers of salesmanship, so I had to rely on his play-by-play accounts of his tours to know how things went.
The day the house finally sold, I was expecting/hoping Kevin had made the sale, but not sure if he would, in such a short period of time. Driving home from Superstore, I decided not to ask: "So, did you sell the house??" just in case he hadn't, but rather to say: "So, were they interested?" This, I thought, would open the door for me to hear the whole story, without hurting anyone's feelings. I came home. Kevin, I discovered, was at the Mackenzies, our neighbors. I went in. "So," I said, "were they interested?"
"Yeah," replied my husband. "They were interested."
"Oh!" said I, waiting to hear the rest. "That's good."
"Mhmmm." said Kevin.
I looked at him. He obviously wasn't going to tell me anything else, right then. Maybe he didn't want to talk in front of the neighbors.
I went back to our side of the house and had just begun to gather the ingredients for hamburgers, when I noticed a stack of papers on the table. Maybe they would tell me what Kevin wasn't saying.
Meanwhile, back at the Mackenzies, Joel was saying to Kevin, with just a tinge of disbelief, "You didn't tell her."
"Nope." said Kevin. "Her family is coming for dinner tonight, and I'm going to wait until her dad or someone asks, 'So, had anyone come and look at the house, yet?', and then I'll say, 'As a matter of fact, yes; I sold it this afternoon.'"
Alas for Kevin's plan; I discovered a filled-out 'offer maker' form in that stack of papers on the table, accompanied by a deposit cheque. The house was sold! I went back to the Mackenzies and sat on him. "You sold the house!!!" I announced. What an amazing salesman I'm married to! Sold in two weeks!
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@His_maidservant - I had to laugh. Don't tell Kevin this, but I have the polka dots from last year, carefully saved for this year. I wish I could put them onto our new house in the country, but the woman won't have moved out yet, so that could be awkward!