This is the story about how I got the name Natasha McMorales: My name is really Natalie Miriam Moreland but almost everyone calls me Nattie. I am a Private Investigator, a PI, and I have my own agency in Bristol, Tennessee. I never really thought about being a PI as a career but after I quit college I needed a job and Hiram hired me as a receptionist/office manager. Hiram encouraged me to get my PI license because he thought I was good at getting people to tell me things. And I’m thankful that he saw this gift because I didn’t see it. Hiram had to retire after he had a heart attack but I still needed a job so he let me keep working under his agency license. The sign on the door read:
HIRAM MORELAND DETECTIVE AGENCY
NATALIE M. MORLAND
When I went to Nashville to get the license that allows me to have my own agency, my brother, Kevin, was supposed to change the sign. He has my old job of receptionist/office manager. I wanted the sign to read:
NATALIE M. MORELAND
PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS
But instead of hiring a sign painter like he was told Kevin took it upon himself to scrape the old sign himself and in typical Kevin fashion he did it a little at a time so there came a time when the door looked like this:
NATA M MOR
I don’t know why Kevin didn’t scrape everything off all at once but that’s not his style. And it would not have been a problem except that Kevin was approached in the parking lot by a potential client who was looking for a PI with a European sensitivity. In typical Kevin fashion he had a moment of creative brilliance (or lunacy) and came up with a name that landed what would eventually be the first big case of my new agency. The name has been and continues to be both a blessing and a curse. The sign on my door now reads:
NATASHA McMORALES
PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR
Hello, So I have read it twice now, the first time in reverse order because I was not thinking straight, but I am hooked now. You have left me wanting more of the story! I do like the location references. I like Bristol as my mental image.
ReplyDeleteI do not think that they are too long at all. Not even the first post. You can absolutely get by with making them a little longer if you desire. Personally, I would not make them too much longer than the first post, but if you were to post a longer one every now and then, it will be a treat.
Thoroughly enjoyed it! Have subscribed to it. If you want some more specific critiques let me know. And, I do like her attitude and insight into her job. It is refreshing that she is optomistic about her suspects' decisions.