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Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)
Steve,
Your story of how you used to get almost anything the customer wanted in order to satisfy the guest staying at the hotel for which you worked, reminds me of my brother, Bryan, asking some Mexican bellboys for a slice of coconut pie, if they could find one. I believe he was in Acapulco at the time. He gave two guys 25 dollars to give it a try, and then a little later, they came back to his room with a Sara Lee pie. It was thawing out quickly in the summer temps when they delivered it. Bryan said it was pretty good, but was not the homemade confection he was hoping for. He still laughs at the memory of the evening in the tropics, as does his wife, who tells of more of his escapades while travelling abroad. She tells of how he joked on telephone calls made from their room in Mexico, posing as "Jesus," using the Spanish pronunciation of the name, and carrying on with his Spanish language expertise....(not!)
He is a nutty clown that I love to pieces! Never a dull moment around him.....
He used to sell a product sold by a company he bought years ago. The product was called 'Snake Oyl,' but was not anything like its name might conjure up in one's mind. The product was a replication of original seat belts from older cars, mostly cars of the 1960's era, sold to men who were restoring older cars to exact specifications.
Although that sounds weird to most, he and his workers made a tidy sum of money, before the company was sold to others. When asked why the name of the company was as it was, Bryan explained that the name was given by the original owner, as a lark; a spoof on a chancy idea and product. But since it worked for the original owner, the idea of changing the name was scrapped.
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