On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:12:46 GMT, Peggie Hall
wrote:

Glenn Ashmore wrote:
The first couple of years I went in bluejeans and
teeshirts and nobody but Peggie and Peter Kennedy would give me the time
of day.

I treat everyone the same way, 'cuz you never know who's "somebody" and
who isn't unless they're a celebrity. One year at the Annapolis show, I
spent about 45 minutes going over the relative merits of various toilets
with someone who was just a nice man in slacks, tee shirt and pair of
WELL worn topsiders. If he hadn't given me his card to send him
literature, I'd have had to have memorized the entire "who's who" of
whole Fortune 500 to know I'd just spent 45 minutes with the COB of a
major airline.


Peggie

This is true. My friend Dan and I went to the little Charleston Boat
Show at the North Charleston Coliseum a couple of years back. Dan had
sold his Hatteras 56 and wanted a "small boat" with outboard to cruise
around the harbor in.

I warned him not to dress in his MUSC Doctor's Suit so we could poke
around in the boats and be ignored by the hawks. The lawn boy
uniforms worked great. We finally narrowed it down to a couple and
were poking around in a Grady White 20' runabout with a walk-through
windshield and nice bow seats with Yam 150 EFI engine on a nice
aluminum trailer. I was poking around in a cabinet when this nice
young man came over to see if he could help us.

Dan says to me in the cabinet, "What do you think?" To which I
snapped my fingers and said, from still inside the cabinet,
"Checkbook!" They had a nice discount on it for the show as most
Grady-White buyers want a CC for fishing Dan could care less about.
He turns to the astonished kid and says, "Can we pay for it now and
pick it up Monday from your store on Savannah Highway?" By that time
the "important suits" had taken more of a passing interest, about the
time Dan and the kid were sashaying over to the card table to complete
the contract. The looks on their faces having just lost a $35,000
sale on a hard-to-move boat was.....well.....Priceless...(c;

Myself, I thought the grass stained sneakers he was wearing at the
contract table went well with the green card table and foldin'
chairs....The kid seemed to like them, too!....(c;



Larry W4CSC

3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million
gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air
conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right?