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Date Posted: 10:54:10 10/26/07 Fri
Author: MelvaT
Subject: What's amazing to me is that we weren't rich by any means. My father managed a small town hardware store in the panhandle of Idaho, but his reputation for honesty and square dealing extended into the neighboring states as well. He would only stock the top of the line materials and products, and he stood behind everything he sold. He'd do business with anyone who paid their bill on time, but 'woe' to anyone who didn't. >>>>
In reply to: MelvaT 's message, "My only thought to add is I wonder, if as women, who give up our last names in marriage; can we grasp/understand the importance to a man of a good name? I spent all day (at the VA with Bob) thinking and remembering the privileges that came with my maiden name. A name that my father had spent years building into astounding recognition in the community I grew up in. >>>>" on 20:45:24 10/25/07 Thu

I can recall a conversation Dad was having with his accountant/secretary one day. She was upset over him taking a carpeting order from Deloris, a well respected madam of one of the local whore houses. When Rose was finished griping at him about how it would look to "society," he just grunted and said, "She pays her bills, and that's more than you can say for most of the upstanding society you're worried about."

*G* It also made it hard to get away with anything, because everyone in the county knew who we belonged too. If one of us kids went to a kegger, we were usually ratted out before we made it back to the house.

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