Runaway Future

I went home last weekend and heard a foolish story of a local car dealership, let’s call it Hutchingson’s that sells Crystals, Dredges and Pont D’Attacks and them refusing to service one of those brand of vehicles if it was purchased at another dealership (even if it was the same brand).

Now Shelburne’s auto industry is hardly booming, Motor Mart has already pulled out, leaving just two of the Big Three. Hondas have started to being brought in and parked at a mall parking lot every now and then in hopes that they sell.

So when Hutchingson’s doesn’t stock a particular Crystal and forces a customer out of the area to get the product they want, what do they really benefit from refusing to service that vehicle that they couldn’t provide.

They’re only losing service and there isn’t enough people in the town to begin alienating present and future customers.

It reminds me a bit of the skate park battle, when a local hardware store, “Carpenters” was upset when we used a lower supply quote from a competitor for our presentation to the Town Council. Unable to see beyond theymselves, they refused to help us due to the simple face that for financial and feasibility reasons, we put a lower quote in a booklet in an effort to make the park more appealing and in the end get the construction approved.

How can a town grow if it is built on the backs of men so small?

The idiotic battles of the skate park basically soured the likelihood of me ever returning to that town for any length of time. There’s nothing there for me, no opportunities and the sheer foolishness that goes on makes it that much more obvious that the town is quite simply dying.

Where’s the ferry? Where’s the developments at the old base and the boy’s school? What’s to be done with the old school property? The local government (if it could ever be called that : it’s a joke to say most of what they do is governing) is part of the blame, but the whole area…it just frustrates me to watch it decay.