[AT] Rat race (was) Trucks pulling tractors

[pga2 at hot1.net]

Just saw a bumper sticker that states: Work is for people that
don't know how to fish. :o)

Phil




----- Original Message -----
>From    : robinson at svs.net
Sent    : Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:35:42 -0500
To      : Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-
tractor.com>
Subject : [AT] Rat race (was) Trucks pulling tractors


>On 25 Jan 2005 at 6:15, crawler wrote:
Got in
> the way of his fishing that was not Good..!!  LOL Dad ran his business 4 1/2
> days a week in the spring til fall closed friday noon and went up north and 
his
> customers got to know it they wanted something done ,do it between Monday 
and
> Thurday. The last three years before he retired he closed Thursday 1:00Pm. 
Wish
> i was more like him I work almost 7 days a week and my now wife then 
girlfriend
> could not believe it Easter Sunday mornin 7:00AM some guy knocking to buy 
parts
> because he was broke down and needed it fix by Monday. 




	I have a sign tacked up in my shop that says "Remember, the primary 
product of 
the great rat race is dead rats..."
	Go buy a fishing pole...   :-)
	The two years before we retired to just the farm we had the store 
open Monday, 
Wednesday and Friday. People learned (we did a lot of repeat business) and we 
did 90 to 95% of the business we did when we were open 6 days a week. Being 
closed 4 days cut our light bill, cut our heat bill and cut our commuting 
cost. 
Making a lot more money by being open more days is an illusion.   :-)


-- 
farmer, Esq.
      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net

_______________________________________________
AT mailing list
http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at