On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, David Deutsch wrote:
> or so cars in it. On this particular day there was a Rubber Bumpered B
> with a Buick V8 in it. Nice car but it did need paint and interior work
> When I inquired of it's price and was told "18" I replied "I'll take
> it, here's $900 now I'll give you the other half tommorrow when I bring
> a flatbed." He then said "18 thousand, you wise$%*". If he had said "8"
> or "9" initially, I would have known that thousands was what he was
> referring to but in all honesty the car was worth closer to $1,800 than
> $18,000.
My then wife and still daughter were in the market for a horse some years
back. I drove them to a stable my wife had heard about that imports
horses. After an hour or so sitting outside in the car, I wandered in to
where the stable manager was showing them a very handsome young animal.
He was just old enough to ride, so really was untrained, which generally
translates into cheap. I dunno diddly about horses, but he had what
Albert Payson Terhune called "the look of eagles." I asked the price, and
the manager said "twenty five." I got very interested, but my wife
virtually dragged me out. When we got in the car, I wondered aloud how
they could make money importing $2500 horses. My wife explained the price
was $25000. I wonder what the manager thought of the big spender in the
well-worn Corolla?
You think cars are expensive, try horses.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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