Beyond The Call Of Duty
There are many people out there promoting our good work. Some we know, some we don’t. Most recently, I was at Doughton Park talking to suspecting individuals about the new Blue Ridge Parkway license tag for motorcycles. When I saw the BRP eurosticker on the back of this well- manicured and well-maintained Honda Goldwing, I knew that I had a dead-ringer.
My opening question: “Do you know about the new Blue Ridge Parkway license tag for motorcycles?” His response: “Do I know about it? I have distributed over a thousand of your applications and I just finished talking to those two guys over there asking them the same thing. By the way, who are you, anyway?” Well, I had to tell him.
I knew Bob only from the telephone conversations that I had overheard with Lynne Fletcher (our director of donor services) when he was asking her to send him more tag applications, almost on a monthly basis. Our Doughton Park conversation was the first that we had ever had in person.
Thank you Bob, you are a real champion for the Blue Ridge Parkway. Your very praising word-of-mouth referrals make you one of the best missionaries we could ever have. Thank you!
These are being printed as we speak and a fresh supply will be sent to you as soon as they are received from the printer. This applies to all others, too!
Thanks!
Houck
It was certainly wonderful getting to meet you and KB also.
I’d like to think that I was a little more gracious than, “BTW, who are you, anyway?” My memory of it is more like, “Wait a minute. You’re not Houck are you?” Vast improvement, don’t you think? But then, if I was pressed to say whose memory I trusted most I’d be hard pressed to say mine.
Keep up the good work, and BTW, please remember to send me more counter tags. I handed out the last of what I had Saturday.
All kidding aside, I hope to see you and KB again sometime. And how more appropriate a place than up on the Blue Ridge? Maybe we can ride sometime.
Bob (aka Wing Rider / Blue Ridge Rider)