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To: Kozy

11 posted on 10/01/2017 2:26:06 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer
Your meme reminds me of an experience my wife and I had in rural Oregon, outside of Medford, when we lived on a farm there in the early 80s.

We had a huge garden and put up lots of vegetable for the freezer. But we had so much, that we put an ad in the local freebie newspaper circular for free vegetables.

We had a good number of people take advantage of our offer but there was one family loaded into a big station wagon who came by one Saturday for green beans. There was the two parents and six kids, all old enough to pick green beans. We showed them where the rows of beans were and gave them kraft paper grocery bags to hold what they picked. We had no limit so told them they could have all they wanted.

The husband and wife looked at each other and turned to my wife and asked, "You mean we have to pick the [free] beans ourselves. My wife and I broke out in laugher and answered, "Well, yeah!" These people actually expected us to get out there and pick the beans for them.

They decided that was it just too much for them and left. This happened 38 years ago and we still relate that story at times like this.

19 posted on 10/01/2017 4:49:55 PM PDT by HotHunt
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