[AT] Bib Overalls

[Larry D. Goss]

When I was a student in Chicago over 40 years ago, I used to go shopping
in the Loop store of Marshall-Fields dressed in a tee-shirt, jeans, and
shower shoes.  It was always fun to see how long it took for me to get
waited on.

It probably wouldn't be as hard today.  Jeans are now the "uniform of
the day."

Larry

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Gene Dotson
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:34 PM
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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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