Real Kato Blog: The End of the Corn Hole Episode

Well, it's all over, at last, thanks to Woody Woodruff. I'm very relieved.

Yes, today it ended, the saga of the corn-holing and the piranha-chewing.

The weather was nice enough so that Woody Woodruff, the guy running a business from a parking lot, could fix up the paint on my Mercedes. I took my car to him. He said he would start working on it right away. He handed me a little pad of paper and told me to write my name and phone number on it. That was the extent of the written formalities. We shook hands and that was it.

When I went to pick up the car five hours later, it looked GREAT. I have to give Woody his props here; he does really good work.

He asked me if he had quoted a price to me. I paused a moment as I contemplated the things I might say. "Oh, you said you'd do it for free." Umm, maybe that would be going too far. I decided to be honest with the poor guy: I told him he had said it would cost around $150.

He charged me $125.

He's a good guy. I like him. Hopefully someday he'll make enough money to buy a garage.

So the car is fixed, and I'm pocketing an extra $200 from the insurance company. I figure that's worthwhile compensation for all my trouble. But I do wonder about the girl who started all this in the first place, the one who rear-ended me. I wonder if her boyfriend got mad that his insurance rates went up. I wonder if she's now single.

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