Welcome to the Pick-Up Truck Side of Town

A follow-up note on our fantasy shopping for a gas fire insert for the family room. This weekend we went to the store near “our” side of town and talked to a perfectly reasonable shop owner about prices and options. Of course his price was lower than the store in the aspiring town. He talked about practicalities – size and heat production and thermostats and such – while the other store had concentrated on looks. We told him, wow, you’re a lot nicer than the people in the aspiring town. He said yeah, he liked living and working on the pick-up truck side of town.