How Neighborly are you?

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How neighborly are you?

On 24Jun2020 the store was winding down, the registers were in a state of closing, and Lee the store owner was looking forward to heading home for a nice home cooked meal but when he stepped outside … the roof was on fire and the back room smelt of smoke – a bird’s nest had caught fire on the roof AC – WOW!

911 was called and the deployment of police and fire department started.  Of course, Lee left everything as it was and stepped outside to watch and wait.  But the next-door store/neighbor was empty, the lights off, and no one could get in there.  Oh no! what will happen…

Fortunately, it was a quick call, a drive over, and the door was open as the police and fire department arrived.  As I listen to this store the next day the next-door neighbor stopped by and said, “I’m so glad you all were here and I should leave you a key to my store so you can get in for emergency.” We agreed and thought we should do the same.  This drives me to an important question: how neighborly are you?

Our neighbor did not even think twice to suggests that keys should be exchanged because we were neighborly.

A question for you to think about – what is your relationship with your store neighbors – would they think of you if a fire was on your roof, would you think of them, do you have a phone number to call them directly, or would you even want to do that? It might be time for you to go over and say hi to your neighbor again or for the first time – it might save you a whole lot of money and maybe get you a new customer.


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