scotto
Bronze Member
Here's a story for everyone......
Some years ago, I had been working at a huge old factory in Northern Illinois that made testing equipment for years. I heard this from an exec who worked there, that was a good friend of my dad's:
The factory used gold on their instruments, and some pieces were ground off slightly, to finish them. There was an exhaust fan that sucked the air out thru the roof.
A young man watched this happen every morning as he drank his coffee from his kitchen, and watched the gold dust drift out and glitter in the sun, just a little bit at a time, as he lived close by the factory. He watched where it fell, by a sidewalk, and seemed hardly noticeable. This went on for many years, and he wondered how he could someday recover that gold, and what it would amount to.
As luck would have it, he was a cement contractor, and he was asked to bid the job to replace the old sidewalk after many years went by. He bid the job cheap to get it, and put a clause in the contract that any debris removal he was responsible for, and he could retain it for fill or however he saw fit.
He said when they were tearing it out, the gold dust could be seen in layers in the dirt under the grass. He carefully hauled all of the grass, and all the dirt away, and replaced it. He finished the sidewalk, and found a way to seperate all the gold dust from the soil.
His take? At least a hundred thousand. Talk about making a dream come true.
Some years ago, I had been working at a huge old factory in Northern Illinois that made testing equipment for years. I heard this from an exec who worked there, that was a good friend of my dad's:
The factory used gold on their instruments, and some pieces were ground off slightly, to finish them. There was an exhaust fan that sucked the air out thru the roof.
A young man watched this happen every morning as he drank his coffee from his kitchen, and watched the gold dust drift out and glitter in the sun, just a little bit at a time, as he lived close by the factory. He watched where it fell, by a sidewalk, and seemed hardly noticeable. This went on for many years, and he wondered how he could someday recover that gold, and what it would amount to.
As luck would have it, he was a cement contractor, and he was asked to bid the job to replace the old sidewalk after many years went by. He bid the job cheap to get it, and put a clause in the contract that any debris removal he was responsible for, and he could retain it for fill or however he saw fit.
He said when they were tearing it out, the gold dust could be seen in layers in the dirt under the grass. He carefully hauled all of the grass, and all the dirt away, and replaced it. He finished the sidewalk, and found a way to seperate all the gold dust from the soil.
His take? At least a hundred thousand. Talk about making a dream come true.
