Posted by Straw Boss on August 21, 2016 at 01:26:56 from (107.77.89.93):
In Reply to: Corn crazy! posted by Eldon (WA) on August 20, 2016 at 17:08:10:
Reminds me. When I was a wee lad we had a good supply of sweet corn one year so we loaded up the trunk of the family car and painted up a couple of Sweet Corn signs and set up on the corner of our township road and the state highway. I'm sure none of us kids had a license to drive since I was only about 11 years old and my older brother wasn't there.
After an hour or so of brisk business, we were visited by the Highway Patrol. I remember I'd never seen one up close before and thought his hat looked just like the one Smokey the Bear wore in the TV commercials. He looked all business with the black stripe on the side of his pants and gun on his hip.
I thought it was pretty cool to have him stop and buy sweet corn from us but he didn't seem interested. He kept nosing around the car, looking in the windows and looking over the open trunk like he was looking for something besides sweet corn.
After answering a bunch of questions like where do you live and how old are you and where are your parents, he kind of stood there a few seconds like he didn't know what to do next. I started to get the feeling he wasn't interested in sweet corn, but about that time I remembered what my Dad said back when we were to sell Scout-O-Rama tickets door to door in town. He said it never hurts to ask, the worst thing they can say is no. So I took a breath and said....Well....how many dozen ears do you want? He just looked at me and grunted something like "harumphff" then he spun around, stomped off to his car and peeled away like he was late for supper.
To this day I feel slighted that Hypo didn't buy any sweet corn from a pathetic bunch of hard working hard scrabble farm kids just trying to help the family make a buck. Even more disappointing was I knew full well anything we didn't sell we'd have to shuck and silk so mother could process them for canning so every sale was important to a kid with better things to do.
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