Holiday Snaps

They sold doors, big doors and little doors, wooden doors, plastic doors, metal doors and fire doors, revolving doors and up and over garage doors, doors of every shape and design. In fact they sold so many door options customers sometimes left on the verge of a breakdown.
Mr Lothian had been with the lady for about twenty minutes, she was replacing the internal doors in her house, fifteen in all and possibly two external doors. Two of the internal doors needed cat flaps suitable for a large cat or small dog. She had two cats 'Loopy' and 'Lou' plus two dachshunds 'Boris' and 'Adolph' and if she took up the external door option one of those must have a similar cat flap. Mr Lothian made notes and could see notes. He would be in for a tidy commission on this one.
After choosing the doors and fittings Mrs Lofthause also took up the offer on the external doors and asked Mr Lothian for his company craftsmen to fit all the doors. This was the icing on the cake.
When all was agreed it was just a matter of entering up the order and taking a payment, normally a deposit was acceptable but because of the size of the order and the specialities she had asked for a 90% down payment would be needed, the final 10% to be paid on completion of the work to her satisfaction.
As they set off for Mr Lothian's work station Mrs Lofthause stopped by a display of hung doors, he pointed to one which she had chosen from the catalogue and opened it with a flourish. Mrs Lofthause thanked him and smiling stepped through it, the door with its hidden springs closed silently behind her. Mr Lothian smilingly opened the door but Mrs Lofthause had disappeared!
She did not come back. Though Mr Lothian opened and closed the door many times Mrs Lofthause did not return. The security video showed her entering the doorway but there were no pictures of her after that.
Mr Lothian spent long sleepless nights worrying about Mrs Lofthause and her pets. He had no address details, she was not in any of the phone books, the police insisted there had been no enquiries and she was not listed as missing. He tried tracing her through the Cats Protection League the RSPCA and the Kennel Club but to no avail.
Later the display of hung doors was dismantled following Mr Lothian's complaint that he couldn't afford to loose customers like that…