(Originally Posted Wednesday 7-3-19)
The description for this pic was ‘woman washing her car manually’. So, my first thought was why is that a big deal?
Then I thought, what if it’s not her car? What if it’s actually a client’s car?
Not like she’s an assistant to some VIP either, but like she owns her own business. So technically the car is hers but what if she owns a fleet of cars, or has accesses to them.
In the second pic we get a view of her and her office area maybe? The guy works for her and helps with the accounts and record keeping.
But who exactly are her clients?
She provides cars to out-of-town assassins, hitmen, mercenaries, or spies.
The cars are all completely clean with no records on them. She can provide them with paperwork, fake plates too. So, if the police run it, it comes back as a car to whatever front company or alias they need it to. That’s a high-end service charge. If they need a car for a quick in and out, they can do that too. She can also have cars delivered to locations so they can have a getaway vehicle already in place.
She’s developed a good enough reputation now that people trust her to follow through on delivery.
Maybe she’s Russian or European? Came into America and saw it as a service that needed filling. Maybe her father or mother was an assassin and they were killed or caught because of crappy transportation.
Maybe that’s where she got the idea from.
It’s not just a business to her but personal. Maybe that’s why she always wants it to be perfect. Maybe her parent(s) were well-known and that’s why people respect/trust her so much?
Next question is deciding where she sets up shop. Boston or Vegas can give her ties to other characters already introduced. New York would make sense but might be too big of a pond so to speak. I could do Miami as that’s another spot where I could start developing characters and businesses much like I have for Vegas and Hong Kong. I’m liking that idea. Miami it is.
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