Jim was good at context. Folks always said that: the man just oozed a sense of perspective.

 

Oh, I shouldn't make fun. For all I know this is completely true. There's no reason it shouldn't be. But maybe he wasn't that happy all the time. If you've run a stand, you know it's work. There's always something. If it's not the customers, it's cleaning the soda dispensers so they don't clog, or taking out the trash, or general brightwork. Not many opportunities to stand around and beam at the servicemen and their prostitutes.