Carl is a friend of the beauty salon who stays pretty quiet most of the time but he sends me heads up and greetings from the far frigid north.  He recently moved to North Carolina to be with his son and to thaw out a little.

He told me about the trip —

As we were traveling down to N.C. stopped in Beckley W Va. This was a couple of days after the election. Over heard at Ruby Tuesday’s, locals wearing ball caps while eating. Male diner said a friend of his called from TX, saying Trump was already hiring people to build wall. Another young guy said, They were starting to call miners from the coal mines back to work..

While at the DMV a lady was signing up to get voters ID card. When asked party preference She responded Trump..

We laughed.

Wouldn’t it be fun to go back in about a year and ask where the coal and the wall are?