Word: felix
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...Assistant Coach Jim Felix is convinced that Locker and "the guys" are going to get along great: "[Locker is] going to bring an exciting brand of soccer to Harvard. I think the team is really going to enjoy working with...
...When I bought my business in the Square, therewas another guy, he charged 95 cents to fix asole, I charged a dollar. Everybody said, look atpoor Felix, he will go out of business and not beable to feed his family. But I used the goodmaterials and did a good job. Now the other guy isgone, and I still here."Sssquare shhhoes, sssquare shhhoes...fixthem things...
...honest with customers. If a $20 shoeneeds an $18 repair he tells them it isn't worthit. "Save these laces if they don't fit. Bringthem back and exchange them." But he jokes around,too. A woman comes in and Felix says I am his newboss. "This young man with the pad, he bought meout. He owns me now, I work for him." He tellsanother woman, a regular customer for 15 yearssoon to be married, "You gonna have to stop buyingexpensive shoes, you gonna have bambinos comingalong...
...Felix speaks quickly, says everything threedifferent ways to make sure others understand, ahabit he acquired while learning English. "I buythe best materials, the best leather, it costs alittle more and I charge the customer, but theytrust me because I buy only the best, and I know alittle, just a little more about shoes than you,and I treat the customers with respect becausemaybe they come back and treat me with a littlerespect...
...animated. Nailing a heel onto a shoe, hestops, looks up to the window and turns to me. "Ifyou are educated, things are different. It is aday, but it is a sunny day, or a rainy day, or asnowy day, you see, they are all a day, but eachis different." Felix is excited. He smilesbroadly, pleased at the thought. "Now, I'm noteducated. Maybe I have some street smarts becauseI've been on my own since I was 11, back in theOld Country...