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Reminds me of my college days Posted by MI-Roger [Email] (#882) [Profile/Gallery] (more from MI-Roger) on Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:57:24 In Reply to: Estate vehicle continued, No Snaab, Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:34:17 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Every Spring a bunch of us would drive the 50 miles from campus to the estate north of Pontiac where one of our fraternity brothers lived in the Servant's Quarters and performed grounds maintenance in exchange for free rent.
Our job was to install their long wide dock in the water of the nearly private lake, and lower the owner's electric launch into the water. S.S. Kresge of K-Mart fame lived on the same lake and would motor over in his matching boat to talk to us guys just to occupy part of his lonely days. S.S. was far more friendly that the guy getting the "free" work done.
Our pay was usually a couple partially empty bottles of liquor left over from their last society party, and we supplied the mix. A weekend day in the Fall saw the reverse work done.
Oh well, we called it our "Wonder what the poor people are doing today" parties and never turned down a chance to do the work for Mr G and see how the wealthy lived.
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