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PG. 26 THE RURAL VOICE/JUNE 1982
GISELE IRELAND
Wheeling and dealing
Farmers don't very often go out and just "buy"
something. They deal and dicker. Just ask any wife who's
been exposed to every machinery yard in the area and the
kids who have waited while the virtues of the current
goodie were discussed with the dealer.
Brian is no exception. He just loves to
barter. It wasn't as noticeable the first few
years of our marriage when we weren't
farming. He accompanied me on a dress
shopping excursion one time and when I
asked his opinion on a model I liked, he
turned to the expectant saleslady and
offered her exactly half the label price,
and waited for her return bid. She threw
him a look that would wither a bull thistle
and put the dress back on the rack. By
mutual agreement we never went dress
shopping together again.
A few weeks ago the kids and I wanted to go to Kitchener
to shop. Brian agreed to drive if he would be excused from
the shopping part. He spends all his time hunting bargains
from the paper and bulletin boards. When he met us several
hours later he informed us that he had put a bid in on a used
car which we badly needed. I questioned him on the model
and price and he admitted that he had offered the dealer
seventeen hundred Tess than the asking price but offered to
throw in a butchered hog. I gave him one of my best "oh not
again" looks and we continued our shopping.
On the way home it was obvious he had gone back,
because he told us that he had also agreed to give the
manager a butchered hog if they honoured his bid but that
they hadn't committed themselves.
Three days later the phone dingled and it was the car
dealer informing the Barter Boss to get the pigs done as
they would deliver the car in four days. They also requested
the heads and lard. It seems they had a secret ambition to
try making headcheese.
They delivered the car, after having been lost for over an
hour and grubbed around in our trunk in three piece suits
covered with dust. From the expressions on their faces 1
fully believe that they will also pickle the pork hocks before
they are done. They happily departed with their prize and
left us with a 1970 model to replace the Old Green Warrior.
It really looked a lot worse beside the city clean one. The
kids examined the zip windows and automatic locks and
automatic trunk and were quite happy to see a car they
hadn't thrown up in yet.
I still can't believe the deal he got, and with the
congratulations pouring on him from all the family
members on his shrewa acumen, his chest just swells and
swells. There is something about the whole business that
bothers me though. A neighbour reportedly traded his wife
to a bachelor friend in exchange for a new pickup truck. She
was to come back when the truck was done. Brian badly
needs a new pickup truck; his present one bucks like a
bronco when driven over thirty miles an hour. You don't
suppose he would, do vou?
Gisele Ireland, a Bruce County pork producer has the
ability to laugh at situations that would make us cry.