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<blockquote data-quote="Voyageur" data-source="post: 1066130" data-attributes="member: 17953"><p>I bought our first color TV just before my wife and I were married. That was 60 years ago this past March. I got it at Christmas time since I'd already gotten us a house and was furnishing it. It cost $800. It was an RCA. When I went into the shop to buy it, the guy who waited on me looked at me and asked if I was "window shopping" for a color TV. It was kind of a snide remark. I asked him if he worked on commission and he said he was, so I told him I wanted to talk to a different salesman. He said something like "Suit yourself," and walked away. Another salesman came over and asked if he could help and I told him this console color set interested me. I asked him how long before I could have one delivered. That was on a Saturday afternoon. He said it could be delivered on Monday. I told him that would be fine and wrote out a check for the thing and made arrangements for it to be delivered and set up. As I was leaving, I walked past the first salesman and just smiled and said, "Kind of blew that one didn't you arsewipe!" In those days that would have been an $80 commission he'd have gotten and nearly as much as 2/3 of the weekly average wages at that time which was a little over $2.50 an hour. Sometimes it's good to be nasty with people. When they earn it.</p><p></p><p>What I don't recall is if the games were already being broadcast in color. I know they were in 1966 because we'd have 8 to 10 people over to our house every Sunday to watch the games in color. We'd drink a pony barrel of beer plus a case or two to top it off. To say our bathrooms got a workout would be an understatement. We had to set up a men's and women's separate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voyageur, post: 1066130, member: 17953"] I bought our first color TV just before my wife and I were married. That was 60 years ago this past March. I got it at Christmas time since I'd already gotten us a house and was furnishing it. It cost $800. It was an RCA. When I went into the shop to buy it, the guy who waited on me looked at me and asked if I was "window shopping" for a color TV. It was kind of a snide remark. I asked him if he worked on commission and he said he was, so I told him I wanted to talk to a different salesman. He said something like "Suit yourself," and walked away. Another salesman came over and asked if he could help and I told him this console color set interested me. I asked him how long before I could have one delivered. That was on a Saturday afternoon. He said it could be delivered on Monday. I told him that would be fine and wrote out a check for the thing and made arrangements for it to be delivered and set up. As I was leaving, I walked past the first salesman and just smiled and said, "Kind of blew that one didn't you arsewipe!" In those days that would have been an $80 commission he'd have gotten and nearly as much as 2/3 of the weekly average wages at that time which was a little over $2.50 an hour. Sometimes it's good to be nasty with people. When they earn it. What I don't recall is if the games were already being broadcast in color. I know they were in 1966 because we'd have 8 to 10 people over to our house every Sunday to watch the games in color. We'd drink a pony barrel of beer plus a case or two to top it off. To say our bathrooms got a workout would be an understatement. We had to set up a men's and women's separate. [/QUOTE]
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