On Tue Oct-09-2012 20:21, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    RW> 01 Jan 70 00:00, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    RN>> That's a good idea and one I should have thought of.   
    RW>> You can't think of everything. 8^)   
      
    RN> Not these days anyway.   
      
    RW> My friend Andrew thinks he can do that. Unfortunately for  him, he   
    RW> gets blown out of the water more often than not.   
      
   The only water I go by nowadays is rain and the shower in the bathroom and the   
   artesian water I make coffee with and drink.  (-:   
      
    RN>> One of my acquaintances is a Harvard Law grad and he wouldn't swap   
    RN>> his M-B for anything, but that did not influence me in the least,   
    RN>> considering how I feel about lawyers.   
      
   [...]   
    RW> That's not what I was thinking.   
      
   Do I want to know what you thought about a man who stayed drunk most of the   
   time?   
      
    RW>> I expect to meet Tom Bensen while we're there...or else he'll be a   
    RW>> no-show and we can enjoy the evening.   
      
    RN> Well, I used to work for the man and unless he had a lobotomy, I   
    RN> would not work for him again.  You should get to meet him because the   
    RN> N.O. Saints have a bye that weekend.  Good luck!  (-:   
      
    RW> I'm not a big-shot franchise owner or manager, so I doubt that I'll   
    RW> get to be in his presence for very long. But, then I doubt I'd be   
    RW> missing much after a handshake and fashionable hello.   
      
   I didn't even get that!  After he bought the dealership I worked in for 17   
   years, he called a meeting of all the enployees one night to inform us we were   
   all starting over and there would be no more two week vacations nor were we   
   eligible for the one week vacation he was going to let us have until after we   
   were in his employ one year from the date of that meeting.  No one spoke   
   aloud, but I'm pretty sure we were all thinking the same thing; some thoughts   
   were probably harsher than others.  The idiot he left in charge to run the   
   dealership was an ex-Marine (is there such a thing?) who thought of us as   
   recruits in boot camp.  I could go on and on about him, but suffice it to say   
   that not a one of us stayed very long after.  I stayed a month and I think   
   that was too long.  Benson subsequently shipped the idiot back to San Antonio   
   6 months after I left.  The dealership was fading fast on his watch and I'm   
   not sure it exists anymore.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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