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Date Posted: 21:58:41 04/28/16 Thu
Author: HOF guy
Author Host/IP: 72.241.146.80
Subject: Westsideblue's hilarious Mr. T story...

Reminds me of a story about a lawyer I worked with when I was just starting out in Chicago (Warning: Mr. T content)
Posted on April 28, 2016 at 05:19:49 PM by WestSideBlue

I was working in a very fancy downtown Chicago law firm who counted Lawrence "Mr. T." Tero as one of its clients. Like you, Mr. T. also believed in running his life strictly on a cash basis. He insisted on paying all of his legal bills, which ran in the tens of thousands of dollars, with paper folding money. Like he would literally bring in briefcases full of cash, movie style, to pay his bills. They constantly tried to dissuade him from doing this, partly for safety reasons, partly because there are onerous federal reporting requirements for cash transactions of that size, mostly because law firms don't, like, have a cash register or anything. They just aren't set up to deal in legal tender. But T persisted.

One day this partner decided to take Mr. T out for a nice dinner at Shaw's Crab house to thank him for his business, the cash issue notwithstanding. Mr. T showed up at dinner wearing all the traditional ropes, chains and other accoutrements one would expect - plus he also had a 24k gold knife, fork and spoon dangling from his chains. At the start of the meal he removed them, asked the staff to wash them, dined with them, then had them re-washed and hung back around his neck.

The partner said he tried to make some joke along the lines of "I pity the fool who tries to get you to eat with normal silverware." Mr. T told him "Don't try to be funny. Just eat."

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