Posted on 03/23/2015 5:54:33 PM PDT by Signalman
CASPER, Wyo., March 23 (UPI) -- A 100-year-old Wyoming man who made his first automobile sale in 1949 said he has no plans to retire from the car dealership. Derrell Alexander, who started his career as a salesman when gas was 17 cents per gallon, celebrated his 100th birthday last week at Whites Mountain Chevrolet in Casper, where he still works six days a week.
Customers said they value Alexander for his honesty.
"Maybe I've missed sales because I didn't lie to him. But that's OK," Alexander told KCWY-TV.
He told the Casper Journal work is part of what keeps him in good health.
"As long as I can get out of the house," Alexander said. "You sit around the house and watch TV or something, and you don't last long."
He credited "the man upstairs" with giving him a long and happy life.
Brad Follensbee, the dealership's general manager, said Alexander is "an inspiration to us all as far as the drive he has."
"I think it's almost more of a habit for him, coming to work every day. I think it gives him purpose and drive to get up every morning and get ready and come to work and be here," Follensbee said.
What sort of warranted can this man provide?
Does he have a dog named Spot?
And he’s still selling more Model T’s than anyone!
Well, he’s working...unlike the present occupant of the White House.
Good article.
Thanks for posting.
I would gladly buy a car from this guy.
Same here.
I have an aunt who will turn 100 her next birthday, who worked until she was 94. Decorated cakes for a grocery store. Gave her something to do that she enjoyed, some company, people to fuss over and cook things for, a little extra money. They loved her at the store too, still come visit her at the assisted living facility where she lives now. Work came to an end when she had to give up driving due to vertigo. Fairly nice place, more like a hotel than anything. I was worried about that, so many negative stories but this one’s decent. She deserves it. Sweet lady, always has been.
From the UPI, eh?
Sounds like an article found in (the) Grit.
I’s likes it.
100 years and how many miles?
NOT quite as old, but the guy we buy our firewood from is 87, and still chopping, stacking, loading tons of firewood six days a week. Sunday he rests.
He’s quite a guy. Hope to be in his condition with his attitude in a few years when I’m that age.
He sold me a car about 3 months ago, with a lifetime guarantee for $500.00 extra, it wasn’t until I was looking at the contract a couple of days later, that I saw that it was for his lifetime.
I am confused by you question....did you mean warranty? That is provided by the maufacturer
The person previous to you understood the joke.
He might outlive you and the car. :-)
This man has seen two “Ultimate Pi Days.” March 14, 1915 and March 14, 2015.
Keep regular oil changes, drive 100 years.
God bless this guy.
Jeans Clement, until she died at 122, told a story about how she sold her home to a young lawyer on the condition she could live in it until she died. She outlived him.
When asked about it, her response was, “Sometimes a good deal is not always a good deal.”
My favorite true lawyer story is about French law, where you can make a deal with an old person to pay their mortgage and house taxes and whatever monthly stipend you agree on, and own it after they die.
The lawyer and his family made such a deal with a (I think) 67 year old woman, but the woman kept living and the lawyer’s family was in too deep to quit, and especially since the longer it went on and stressed them, the older and more likely she was to die any minute.
The reason we got to see the story in the news. was because the woman did finally die after outliving everyone, she became France’s oldest person at the time of her death, and was 116 (or 115).
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