I had to share something that I found out tonight. I am pretty excited about this discovery that I wish I knew about years ago. This might start off slow but stay with me, please.
So many of you know I have a daughter that is 20 years old and attends college out of town. Well, her roommate this year is an old friend. In fact it is her best friend. They have been best friends since the 4th grade. I have known her parents this whole time but we were never real close since we both worked a bunch ,so every time I would invite him to a concert or something he was always working or vice versa. Her father's name is Steve and through the years owned a car lot and worked in sales. Well he and his business partner came over tonight to check out my roof since he sells roofs. During his visit they both toured my upstairs man cave. He saw all of my chips and he said, "hey my Great Grandfather used to make chips." to which I thought was BS. Now it gets interesting.
So we started talking and he said he could remember hearing stories of his great grand father making chips. He stated that he made chips for illegal casinos. So that really sparked my interest. We started talking and he said his mom still had a bunch of chips which really got me going. He said that his family was in the chip making business. I called bullshit at first but he proceeded to tell me about his great grandfather. I knew Steve's last name but when he told me his great grandfathers last name my jaw dropped. His moms maiden name is JONES!!! he said his great or great great grandfather made chips for illegal casinos and his last name was JONES!!!
The funny thing is, his mother lives in a small community between where I live and where my daughter lives. In fact his mother purchased a bunch of furniture to decorate my daughter and her best friends apartment. My daughter used to spend weekends or the whole week during the summer at this lady's lake house!
So my next question was???? Does she have any chips to which he said that she did. He did say he would talk to her to let her know that if she was ever interested in selling to contact me. May never happen but he said one day we will sip some single malt scotch while looking through some chips! He said she has them but does not do anything with them.
I just thought it was funny that a man I have known for many years is a decedent of a chip maker. He said he will have his mom call me soon to talk about chips. Hopefully there is more to this and I will have more to share sometime in the future.
David O
So many of you know I have a daughter that is 20 years old and attends college out of town. Well, her roommate this year is an old friend. In fact it is her best friend. They have been best friends since the 4th grade. I have known her parents this whole time but we were never real close since we both worked a bunch ,so every time I would invite him to a concert or something he was always working or vice versa. Her father's name is Steve and through the years owned a car lot and worked in sales. Well he and his business partner came over tonight to check out my roof since he sells roofs. During his visit they both toured my upstairs man cave. He saw all of my chips and he said, "hey my Great Grandfather used to make chips." to which I thought was BS. Now it gets interesting.
So we started talking and he said he could remember hearing stories of his great grand father making chips. He stated that he made chips for illegal casinos. So that really sparked my interest. We started talking and he said his mom still had a bunch of chips which really got me going. He said that his family was in the chip making business. I called bullshit at first but he proceeded to tell me about his great grandfather. I knew Steve's last name but when he told me his great grandfathers last name my jaw dropped. His moms maiden name is JONES!!! he said his great or great great grandfather made chips for illegal casinos and his last name was JONES!!!
The funny thing is, his mother lives in a small community between where I live and where my daughter lives. In fact his mother purchased a bunch of furniture to decorate my daughter and her best friends apartment. My daughter used to spend weekends or the whole week during the summer at this lady's lake house!
So my next question was???? Does she have any chips to which he said that she did. He did say he would talk to her to let her know that if she was ever interested in selling to contact me. May never happen but he said one day we will sip some single malt scotch while looking through some chips! He said she has them but does not do anything with them.
I just thought it was funny that a man I have known for many years is a decedent of a chip maker. He said he will have his mom call me soon to talk about chips. Hopefully there is more to this and I will have more to share sometime in the future.
David O
