[TheForge] Re: OT Goats [was: Beware the quiet welder]

[Mike Spencer]

> A fellow that lived here in Uvalde had a goat that went everywhere
> with him.  It was said that he invented the automatic transmission,
> and was worth millions....He would always pay his bills in person,
> and with silver dollars.

Good yarn, Robert!

When I was in high school, late 50s, I used to go to the bank whenever
I had more than a sawbuck and buy silver dollars -- real ones, not
Susan Bs -- and spend them.  I got a kick out of the consternation.
Many people in Springfield, Mass. apparently had never seen a silver
dollar and a couple even refused to take them.

No goats were involved, unless I was the goat for not putting them in
a piggy bank and keeping them for 20 years until the Hunt brothers did
their thing.


- Mike

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