[AT] Bib Overalls

[charlie hill]

Gene in a very remote area of eastern NC there were 2 brothers name Taylor
who made there living fishing and then eventually got into the shipping
business and got rich shipping banannas from central and south america to
the US.  (If any of you have ever seen any fancy Kenworth or Peterbuilt
refrigerated trucks with Taylor Brothers Seafood, Atlantic NC on the door.
That is the guys)
The story has it that in the early 50's they pulled one of their banana
boats up into the canal in Miami, Fla., got off the boat in their nasty work
clothes with dirty hands and proceeded to try and check in to a swanky Miami
hotel.

The clerk or doorman or someone at the hotel gave them the bums rush and
showed them the door.  The next day they owned the hotel and the guy that
showed them out was shown the door himself.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at loganrec.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 11:33 PM
Subject: [AT] Bib Overalls


>     Farmer;
>     This reminds me of a story true told be one of the
> customers who used to come into my brother's garage when I
> worked there.
>     This was in the late sixties and this gentleman was a very
> successful farmer. He always drove Cadillac cars.
>     One day he had some livestock business to the south of
> Columbus, Ohio and on the way home he decided to stop in the
> Cadillac dealer in Columbus and trade for a new car. Of course
> he was wearing his farmers bibs and a denim jacket. he entered
> the showroom and was looking at the new cars while 3 salesmen
> sat at a table in the corner. After about a half hour of
> checking the new cars and not even as much as a glance from the
> salesmen, he walked out. About an hour later he came back to
> the Cadillac dealership in a New Lincoln Continental and parked
> in front of the door and started blowing the horn. One of the
> salesmen came out and wanted to know what all the commotion was
> about. He told them that he wanted to buy a new Cadillac, but
> no one was interested in helping him, so he went down the
> street and they were anxious to help him into a new Continental
> and he just wanted to show them the commission they had lost.
>
>                     Gene
>
>
>
> Even though I'm not as smart as Walt those that want
> to talk down to me and brush me aside rarely
> accomplish it.   :-)
> If I was a multi zillionaire I would probably dress
> more rag tag than I do now. I would feel obligated to
> just to annoy people...  ;-)   It would be fun to walk
> into snooty restaurants in raggy bibs and them knowing
> that I could buy them out in a blink.  :-)   OK, so I
> have evil dreams...   Actually I probably wouldn't
> bother with the snooty restaurants, I'd be too busy
> out buying up every old rusty tractor I could find.
>
>
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