A rooster strolled into R and R Garage in North Carolina on an ordinary day last summer and didn’t appear to have any intentions of leaving. When the workers went a long weekend, they sort of anticipated he would go on to another location because they had presumed he had been abandoned and had started feeding him leftovers from the store refrigerator.
But when everyone came back, he was still there, so they gave him the name Earl and made him the store rooster.
Earl sleeps in a nearby tree at night, unless the weather is bad, and then everyone makes sure he’s safely inside for the night. Every morning, Earl eagerly greets his fellow employees as they arrive at work for the day, and he’s fallen into a daily routine around the shop that everyone has come to know and love.
“He comes running when the first guy comes in to open up for the day,” Joe Gallo, co-owner of R and R Garage, told The Dodo. “He gets his cup of scratch, then wanders the shop looking for any bugs that may be around. He gets up under all the toolboxes and workbenches looking for spiders and anything else he can find.”
Earl enjoys hanging out with the workers at the garage after going on his morning breakfast search. He unmistakably gives the impression that he is simply another employee of the garage, which he kind of is at this point.
He would normally sleep in a corner or beneath the automobile you are working on when he enters the business, according to Gallo. “He doesn’t mind whether others pass by or make loud sounds. We have occasionally stumbled over him since he will even sleep in front of the office door.
Earl seems to have no idea that, most of the time, he’s kind of in the way …
… and everyone at the shop has just come to accept that part of their daily job is working around their rooster mascot.
Earl has been “working” at the business for so long that he has earned a little amount of local notoriety, and everyone there has welcomed their little feathered employee fully. To demonstrate him that he is a legitimate member of the squad, they are even working on redesigning their logo and having jerseys created with his image on them.
We’re shocked by the media coverage Earl is receiving; it’s suddenly the talk of the town, Gallo remarked. When clients pick up their autos, some of them bring friends or family to meet Earl.
No one is quite sure where Earl came from or why he chose the R and R Garage to be his home, but everyone there is so glad that he did, and now definitely considers him part of their extended family.
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