Analog Sff, April 2010
Analog Sff, April 2010
“BurnsSome professions enjoy little public trust. But how sleazy can they be, really?Ten minutes to closing on a cold, rainy Thursday night, and Kent Green was thinking it wouldn't be the end of the world if no other customers came in before he closed the sales office and locked up. It had been so dead since late afternoon he'd sent the other salesmen home to their families. Divorced and owner of the place, he stayed.Dreading the arrival of possible customers was not a standard powertrain of tho...ught for the owner of a used car lot. But it had been a long miserable day, and Kent was willing to pass on the chance to go get soaking wet once again only to hear someone tell him they were “just looking."Some tin had moved during the day, in spite of the foul weather: a four-year-old hybrid and a three-year-old pure electric, both reasonably clean units with average miles on them; stock in trade for Blue Sky Motors. When his father started the lot in the Sixties he'd chosen that name because of a conviction he'd soon be selling the flying cars he saw touted in magazines like Popular Science and Popular Mechanics.MoreLess
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