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Uogs can DC handled, out tne company sometimes has a real problem with people.
“You see,” said Mr. Brown, “We had a pole on a farmer’s property. 1 had almost finished my job, but when 1 started to string the lines, the guy appeared with a big rock—, and that was that.”
“When such incidents occur, I just don’t argue, I pack up and retreat in a hurry. I then figure a new phase of approach.”
“Still—we have it a lot easier than the fellows did years ago, now that we have modern equipped trucks.”
Some of the customers were a little leary of changes made by the company over the years. When the old-fashioned desk set ’phone was replaced by the hand set,” according to Brown, “tnfny persons were reluctant to use it. They feared they would “not know which end to talk into.”
The practices of the company have changed also, with the passing years. Today, telephone men are not allowed to accept a bottle of beer from a customer. Soft drinks and a doughnut, maybe, but no alcohol.
Practical jokes have almost be-. come non-existent With us too, although sometimes we can't resist the opportunity. •.
“1 recall the order of no alcohol, many years ago, ’’laughed Brown. “Shortly after that time, I happened to be having a root beer with my lunch. We had a very conscientious foreman and when he saw the brown-colored bottle in my hand he hustled over. I knew what he thought so 1 kind of hid the bottle « as he approached.” 1 -* ■**
“Uh—Brown—what are you drinking?” he asked nervously.
With a straight face, Brown informed the boss he was “just haying a little beer with my lunch.” According to Brown, the remark had the desired result.
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