"Oh, no! Not such a busy schedule, anyway. Though you can probably see that. It's strange. I didn't use to get a lot of business out here. But ever since that city went up, people have been coming and going faster than I can keep up with! Well, not that fast. Not really. But I used to go months without a customer. And now people are around here almost every other day."
It made Norman proud. Like suddenly he was a good businessman or something. Even though he hadn't done anything different than he'd ever done. They just built up a city is all. Funny how that could be done so quickly. He barely even noticed it going up. It was like it just appeared one day!
The must have put a new highway extension in or something.
"Oh! I'm Norman Bates, by the way. But you can call me Norman."
He set the book out on the counter and opened it up to the last page.
"I like to have all my guest sign in, you see. Formality. Do you see your friend's name?"