Larry W4CSC wrote:
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Two boat shows ago, I took a friend who used to own a Hatteras 56 to
the
local boatshow. I told him to please dress in the same clothes he
mows his
lawn in, instead of that doctor's suit from Brooks Brothers that
would be
SURE to attract the drooling sales wienies to trail us around and
ruin the
show. He agreed.
Three dealers wouldn't let us look in their boats. Most of the
others,
seeing our jeans and T-shirts, just ignored us as rabble.
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Oh, yeah, I can relate to that! Before the late 80's, I'd cruise boat
shows or car dealers in my raggedy-ass jeans and a T-shirt, along with
my long hair and beard, often closely followed by security guys but
ignored by sales droids. And don't even ask about shopping for
airplanes! But by the late 80's, Seattle area dealers of all sorts
wised up to the fact that all the nouveau multi-millionaires from
Microsoft looked more like panhadlers than CPAs and were more likely to
plonk down a load of cash than most suit-and-tie drones.

Nowadays, you almost see a kind of reverse snobbery locally. The
dealers/salesmen tend to zero in on counter-culture looking customers
and ignore the country club set. Amusing.

If you live long enough...

Frank (Actually, I like the Japanese version of that saying: "If you
sit by the river long enough, you'll see the bodies of your enemies
float by.")