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In
this article, I’ll attempt to communicate to you some of the things that
I’ve either had miscommunicated to me or I just didn’t understand
because I didn’t listen. Yes, this article is about gardening (good lawn
mowers) and communication.
A
few weeks ago, the Home Grown Tomatoes Team traveled to the Morgan Farmers
Co-op for a remote broadcast and a Grillin’ With Kenn demonstration. You
may have seen the picture in the May issue of "Farming News."
We had a great time and I got to meet some of the folks that I had been
talking with on the telephone for a year or more like Jim Allen and Susan
Parker.
Now,
Susan, my new best friend, is very knowledgeable of horticulture and has a
horticulture degree from Auburn University. She properly pronounces every
syllable of every word she speaks…and talks faster than anyone I’ve
ever known from the south.
The
following week we were to travel to the Winston Farmers Co-op to help them
celebrate their 45th anniversary. SO…….at some point during one of the
breaks in Morgan County, Susan mentioned to my Executive Assistant, Lisa
Opielinski, that Hustler Zero Degree lawn tractors would be promoted the
following week. Lisa told me that the Hustlerettes would be there too. I
immediately started promoting the next week’s events and mentioned that
the Hustler Girls would be there. I mentioned it several times, qualifying
that these were not Larry Flint’s Hustler Girls, but the Hustler lawn
tractor girls.
The
HGT Team rolled into Haleyville very late on the Friday night before the
remote and the Winston Farmers Co-op Team was hard at work at 9 PM getting
ready for the next day. I noticed that some of the ladies were wearing
Hustler tee shirts and I teasingly asked them if they were the
Hustlerettes. They got a good laugh out of that.
The
next day there were more ladies in Hustler tee shirts. I knew they must be
the Hustlerettes! NOT!
The
Hustler lawn tractors were at the end of the parking lot in a tent on
display. I kept looking for those Hustlerettes but none of the ladies knew
what I was talking about.
After
the remote, I started grilling. Susan Parker came up to me and introduced
me to a gentleman named Monty Gordon, Territory Sales Manager of Hustler
Power Equipment. I asked him about the Hustlerettes. He said, "I’m
the Hustler Rep." I don’t know how Lisa got Hustlerettes from
Hustler Rep., but we had fun with it for two weeks in anxious anticipation
of scantly-clad ladies promoting the Hustler lawn tractors!
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