So I've go this farmer who just made a food delivery to a sort of boardinghouse, and the cook there presses him to stay for a cup of coffee. Matter of ten minutes probably. (An important story needs to be told in his presence in the kitchen.) It's currently snowing (not bitter cold but enough for snow obvsly) and it's coming up on dusk.
Now this guy made the delivery with a horse & cart. It's not mentioned, b/c my POV character's been indoors the whole time, but realistically in my set-up there's no other way he made that delivery. Am I right in supposing that unless he's a real jerk to his horse (and he can't be, he's meant to be an over-the-top kind character) there's no way he'll leave it out there for ten minutes just so he can kick back with a cup of joe? Would it be much more OK as long as he, I don't know, threw a horse blanket over it, or am I grasping at straws here??
And I'm sure unhitching the horse (I don't really think the boardinghouse has a barn anyhow, it's not a time when everyone's got horses, just the poorer farmers & deliverymen) would be way too much work for this kind of moment, so that's out.
Boy, if only I'd mentioned the darn horse in the narration, I would have realized the problem before this...
Thanks for any help!
Now this guy made the delivery with a horse & cart. It's not mentioned, b/c my POV character's been indoors the whole time, but realistically in my set-up there's no other way he made that delivery. Am I right in supposing that unless he's a real jerk to his horse (and he can't be, he's meant to be an over-the-top kind character) there's no way he'll leave it out there for ten minutes just so he can kick back with a cup of joe? Would it be much more OK as long as he, I don't know, threw a horse blanket over it, or am I grasping at straws here??
And I'm sure unhitching the horse (I don't really think the boardinghouse has a barn anyhow, it's not a time when everyone's got horses, just the poorer farmers & deliverymen) would be way too much work for this kind of moment, so that's out.
Boy, if only I'd mentioned the darn horse in the narration, I would have realized the problem before this...
Thanks for any help!