A Peek at Our Banker

We have an amazing banker.

I first met our banker years ago when he helped me open either an account for one of the kids or a business account or whatever...the point is...I have know him for quite a while. Long enough for him to become a family friend. Long enough for him to have been invited to (and actually attend) a family wedding. He's not really a banker. Sure...that's his day job, but what he really wants to be when he grows up is a photographer.

The day we went to open our business bank account was a day that we had a lot of research and development scheduled. We got there pretty much right when it opened. The plan was to be in and out of there like a couple of ninjas...quick and painless...and then back to the ovens.

We were all chatting it up as he was doing his bank things...he asked us what we would be doing...we answered "desserts and baked goods"...that always gets a really good response. He said he loved chocolate chip cookies and snickerdoodles. Oh! how he loved snickerdoodles...and then he said...

"I like the name of your business...it reminds me of the Revolutionary War. You know...a guy standing there with a gun." By this time he was making the arm motions of someone holding a rifle across his chest. Maybe he was guarding his snickerdoodles. I really don't know because personally I had never make that particular connection. We just smiled and nodded and acted like we knew what he was talking about.

Well...after all the forms were filled in and printed up he handed a pen to Mary indicating where she was to sign...and then she said...

"That's not the name of our company." All the forms said THE SWEET TREATY. We just smiled and nodded because now we knew what he had been talking about. "Hey Colonel...that's a pretty SWEET TREATY we got the British to sign!" Right about then our banker could have used a sweet little treat...some would even argue that he needed a sweet treaty and A HUGE CUP O' COFFEE.

Anyway...we got it all sorted out.

Snickerdoodles were not on our list of things to do that day but we sidetracked ourselves...as usual...and our amazing banker had his very own stash to guard by end of banking hours.

I took this with my phone because our
amazing photographer was busy!