Posted by Ultradog MN on August 25, 2011 at 17:07:53 from (70.56.164.238):
In Reply to: O/T Shocking Corn posted by fergienewbee on August 25, 2011 at 07:40:16:
Can't tell you a thing about shocking corn. Can tell you a story about shucking corn though. Quite a few years ago I knew this guy who was kind of down on his luck. Mostly because of the booze. He'd grown up in a good farm family in Kansas and with his sister had inherited a few sections of land but had seen most of his half lost on foolish schemes and through a bottle. So back when he was still living in Topeka along towards the end of the month when the trust money was getting short he needed to figure out a way to get a little booze. So he took a pipe cutter and cut off one of the parking meters downtown. He sawed it apart to get at it and took a dremel tool and fashioned a key that would fit the lock. He said the key worked good. As you know all the meters use the same key. So then he sewed a bag under his jacket so when he stood up to the meter the coins would fall into it conviently withpout spilling on the sidewalk. Then he would act like he was a bit drunk and wobble up to a few meters and dump the coins out of them. He told me how much a pound of quarters, dimes and nickels was worh but I don't remember now. Was enough $ to get him by with booze and bacon till the first of the month though. He was a well educated man and told some great stories if you liquored him up a little first. He told me that one couple of times and seemed real proud of his achievement. "Jerry did I ever tell you the one about living in Topeka and shucking corn from the city?"
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