My name is Abraham Beauregarde, but everyone calls me Honest Abe.
I came here to Eagle Valley because I saw *potential*! I saw *possibility*! Here we could build a big city and I’d be right there on the ground floor! It was perfect! I was going to become the richest man in Eagle Valley, just see if I didn’t! I’d show all those people who thought I couldn’t even run a decent used car lot.
My new neighbors were an interesting mix, and they didn’t seem to get along together, but that doesn’t matter when it comes time to buy now does it?
No one seemed to be ready to buy tvs, but that was okay, no town started with an electronics store. No, what this community needed was a grocery store.
I just need to get enough money together for it first.
I made a little money that first day, but it wasn’t enough.
The next day I met Rose. She understood my vision for this town and told me she knew the perfect person for me.
She introduced me to Demi. Now Demi was the first person I met around here with an actual job. She ran an artist commune. Not the most profitable business, but surely something could be worked out if we worked out.
And we were working out just fine.
Then Rose, you know, the one that introduced us, started kissing up my arm! Right in front of Demi! I am *Honest* Abe! I ain’t gonna cheat! Especially in front of the girl I’m dating. What kind of person did she think I was?
That night, Demi left me this nice little fountain. Not something I could use, but it sure sold for a hefty chunk of change.
Add that to the money I got from selling things I dug up and I had enough.
My new business was going to be called Abe’s Grocery. Yeah, yeah, not the most creative thing ever, but it got the idea across, didn’t it? When it’s the first store in town, you don’t want to confuse people.
It wasn’t much, but it was mine, and it was only the first.
Dr. Hawking was not pleased. He seemed to think the lights from the store would interfere with his observatory. You know, the observatory that was all the way on the other side of the area! Like I’m going to shut my store down because of that!
I hadn’t actually run a cash register before. We didn’t have one in our car lot. It took a while to get used to one.
But sales, oh sales I knew how to do.
My grocery store started gaining a good reputation. I had no idea there were so many people around here. This was going even better than I thought.
Oh, not everything was perfect, mostly thanks to that stupid cash register, and trying to run it all by myself.
I even met someone else with impeccable style.
I used this contraption to keep me going. I was not going to leave until I absolutely had to.
I even got the hang of that cash register. By the time I left my store was a level 5, I had a silver sales badge, a bronze cash register and restocking badge.
Today the store! Tomorrow the town! Next year… the world! Just kidding.
(blah. Abe had such a strong voice in my head and it didn’t come through at all)
Stats:
Sims: 13
Households: 4
SM: 2
Population: 26
Community Lots: 1
Abe’s Grocery lvl 5
Jobs: None (I’m using the level 10 for a business slot, even though this rule set says lvl 5)
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