Real Linving Winter 2025

OUTSTANDING IN HER FIELD You need me to get what? by Sarah Harrison, Co-Owner of Mazak Farms “Can you run into town….” the start of an inevitable argument. “Can you run into the hardware store and pick up…” Yup, that is the sentence that all farm women despise. Why? Because it rarely ends up

is actually thinking. Most of the time, I can remain composed enough to politely reply, ‘That’s not necessary; I would appreciate your help in finding…’. However, sometimes, my face lets me down and reveals just how annoyed I am with that request. In my experience, it has never been a female sales associate who requested a phone call with my husband; it has always been men. When those men see my face, the interaction goes from annoying to comical. Their attempt to backtrack and pull the interaction out of the water is always amusing. I may be the one who ran into town, but that doesn’t mean I need the men to give me the product and a pat on the head. Do I love leaving my work and running into town? Nope. I hate it, actually, but I love being part of our farm business as an equal partner who would rather be entertained by a sales associate than switch out the water pump on the tractor. Keep being outstanding in your field.

going well. It seems that no matter how detailed the description of the item you are intending to purchase, it never ends up being what you were supposed to get. It is either the wrong size, the wrong brand, or the wrong thing altogether. When you are in the store, you feel this sense of urgency, as that much-needed mystery item you were sent to retrieve is absolutely required to keep the farm ticking. The worst is when you have dropped the work you were doing in order to do your part in averting the latest farm disaster, but by the time you get back to the farm from the dreaded mission to town, the problem has been fixed. Whatever that thing was that you just purchased is no longer needed. Never mind, I take that back. The worst is actually when you are at the store telling the salesperson what you need; they give you a blank look and say, ‘Why don’t you call your husband so I can ask him what he’s looking for?’. That is the worst. Here we are at the start of 2025, and more times than not, I’m asked to put ‘the man’ on the phone. Good grief. Having three ‘tween’ and teen daughters, my face is pretty trained to hide what my brain AD SAVE DIRECT RESPONSE MEDIA GROUP 240 Wyecroft Road, Oakville, ON L6K 2G7 1 866 993-0600 drmg.com

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