It's that time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Vary Show is on the air. Perhaps my favorite micro podcast.

The beauty of a micro podcast is following the model of Paul Harvey,

you don't know when he tells you the story about this person or who this person is going to turn out to be.

I think of the Van Halen story, one of my favorites.

So you don't know what's going to happen in this story the first time you hear it,

and you never get that experience back.

But since the grocery store did close, I thought we'd pay one final tribute to Mike Roe,

paying tribute to Boris Yeltson's visit to Webster.

He was visiting Clear Lake area and his grocery store visit and how that led to so much.

September 16th started off like any other day for the employees at Randall's grocery store.

They arrived at 5 a.m. and began prepping the produce and wiping down the cash registers.

The smell of baked goods filled the aisles as the employees began the endless process of stocking and

rotating thousands of products on hundreds of shelves. It was really just an average day

in an average grocery store, until it wasn't. The boss showed up, anxious and frazzled.

Apparently, some bigwig was in town visiting the nearby space center,

and they had just received word he was about to drop by the grocery store for an unscheduled tour.

Who could it be? Some muckety-muck from the home office? A shareholder? Maybe Mr. Randall himself,

coming by for a surprise inspection. The boss sparked orders to make sure

the place was tip-top and the employees took things up a notch. A few hours later, the store was

sparkling and the mystery guest arrived. Whoever he was, he didn't work for Randalls. "'Looking outside through the glass, the employees could see that this was clearly a very powerful, very important man.

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