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Just look at the dignity here in this humble creation he has made!

> [...] she interrupted me mid-sentence and hollered in exaltation to her husband: ” THE VIDALIA MAN! THE VIDALIA MAN! PICK UP THE PHONE!”

The happiness I feel reading that is so sublime. His work is needed and appreciated -- and what a humble trade with a beautiful simplicity to it. It is repeatable; others could do this too! Imagine what our communities would be like if most families had a little something like this. It reminds me of G.K. Chesterton's "Three Acres and a Cow" [1] slogan (implying that can be enough).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism#Economic_theory


I hope I wasn’t the only person here who thought of the egg man scene in Pink Flamingos when they read this :)

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