Originally Posted by
405grain
Back when I was a kid the electric company would put a bounty on red headed woodpeckers. The woodpeckers would turn the telephone poles into Swiss cheese and store acorns in them. If I remember right, they were paying 50 cents for each one brought in. There was a kid named Mike that lived down the block, and he had quite an enterprise going. He'd follow the phone poles and trees along the railroad tracks with a lever action 22, and over a day or two he'd fill a garbage bag with dead woodpeckers.
Now, he could have turned those in at any of the electric companies field offices, but instead he'd go to their business office in town. The field offices had linemen, equipment operators, and other hard working dudes there, but the business office was mostly secretaries. He'd walk in and plop a bag of dead woodpeckers on a secretaries desk, and ask for the bounty. The secretary would be horribly grossed out, and call for the nearest male co-worker to assist in paying this lad his bounty. Once he had cash in hand, Mike would step outside and wait. Within moments, that male co-worker would exit the back of the building and toss that bag of dead woodpeckers into the dumpster. As soon as the coast was clear, Mike would fish that bag back out of the dumpster, then he would turn that same bag in for the bounty at one of the field offices. I think Mike could have made a good career as a used car salesman.