The owner of our company and his wife were traveling with me on a sales call to North Carolina. They saw your LOGO Knifes I had with me as gifts for my farmer customers. The owners wife said she didn't see how that was a very good gift. I said just watch what happens!

We went into a little cafe / gas station / hardware /hunting supply one room store. It is call the Rowan store, 30 miles from nearest town. Six of my customer / friends were sitting around the lunch table. I handed each a LOGO Knife, and started to talk business. One older customer said he could not accept a pocket knife without giving me something in return. As you may know that is a old southern custom. I said, "I will take all the change in your right front pocket", he said, "fair enough."

As we talked business each man stared at his knife and opened and closed it probably 8 or 10 times. Each time seeing my BBC logo. I left with $140,000.00 in orders for next harvest season and the 38 cents the old man had in his front right pocket.

In the truck driving away the owners wife said I don't understand. What happened, why did they open and close their knifes. "I don't know," I said, "it is just a thing all men do when handed a folding knife. I have seen it happen all my life. They won't forget who gave it to them, we will get another order or two in the weeks to follow." She then asked if she could have a knife for herself.

Butch Greiffendorf BBC Technologies South Have, MI