Oh, the friends we meet

When we provide our home inventory service, we quite often feel that we have made new a new friend. But last week we developed a special fondness for Wilson.

When we arrived, he welcomed us with such enthusiasm you'd think we were long lost friends! We took time for our normal pleasantries and he seemed to really enjoy that. When it was time to get to work, he followed us throughout the house, watching everything we did. We don't mind that, and always invited our customers to be with us the entire time. Wilson was very quiet and never got in our way. Most of the time he just sat and watched as we moved about documenting the personal property, logging serial numbers and model numbers, counting the clothes, the CDs, the DVDs, etc.

It can be quite boring watching us work, and a few times we saw him taking a cat nap. But, once we headed to another room, along he came. A couple hours later, when it was time for us to leave, he walked us out the front door and even onto the sidewalk! I was beginning to think he was just going to come home with us. So, we stopped walking, said goodbye once more, and started towards the car. Again, he started walking with us!

At that point, though, his owner called him back to the house. We gave Wilson one more pat on the head, knowing this time, for sure, we have a new-found friend!