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OneGrassRoot

(23,412 posts) Fri Sep 20, 2013, 12:02 PM Sep 2013

Meet Don Ward, Shoe Shiner Extraordinaire

Allow this fine man to make your day, or at least make you smile.

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Meet Don Ward, Shoe Shiner Extraordinaire (Original Post) OneGrassRoot Sep 2013 OP

What a character. narnian60 Sep 2013 #1

Love it. It pays to listen to the shoe shine guy. grantcart Sep 2013 #2

Don improved my day. ohtransplant Sep 2013 #3

narnian60

(3,510 posts)

1. What a character.

Reply to OneGrassRoot (Original post)

Fri Sep 20, 2013, 01:04 PM

Sep 2013

Hope he makes a ton of money everyday.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)

2. Love it. It pays to listen to the shoe shine guy.

Reply to OneGrassRoot (Original post)

Fri Sep 20, 2013, 01:46 PM

Sep 2013

As the story goes, it was a shoeshine boy who kept J. P. Morgan from losing it all in the crash.

According to folklore, one day while shining Morgan’s shoes, the boy offered the Wall Street titan a stock tip. Morgan wasn’t offended, but realized then if the shoeshine boy was in the market, everyone else must be too.

If that was in fact the case, there was no fresh money to send prices higher…and plenty of risk that only modest selling pressure could cascade to a crash.

ohtransplant

(1,496 posts)

3. Don improved my day.

Reply to OneGrassRoot (Original post)

Sun Sep 22, 2013, 02:28 PM

Sep 2013

He brings to mind this quote, "If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." - Marc Anthony.

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