3. TIL of a banker in a small Florida town who encouraged people to buy shares of C...

TIL of a banker in a small Florida town who encouraged people to buy shares of Coke during the Depression and now the town has "secret Coke millionaires"

I'm more than 50+ miles from any major cities and my county only has 140k people living in it. There's still Gulf side bungalows for weekly rent, fishing charters, camp lodging near natural spring heads and forests, kayak rental billboards plastered all over the main roads, a Florida wildlife park, and on and on.

Funny story about the wildlife park. My SO is from NY and I always joke with her that we don't need to visit NY because nobody lives there any more, they all live here now. You can take a barge ride down a canal to enter the park with a tour guide giving you facts about Florida and the park the whole way. We like the park and go from time to time, and once we were on the barge with a bunch of tourists from NY (Ha!)

It's a lot funnier when I use an exaggerated NY accent but I tease her by mimicking a guy that was on the boat. He's a caricature of NYC inner city 20 something. Yankees cap, gold chain, baggy Tee with cash symbol on it, baggy plaid shorts that are extra long, high top sneakers with an over sized tongue.

He's on his cell phone, although myself and the tour guide seemed to be the only two people bothered by this. As the tour guide points out a large spider that's made a large web spanning the canal from the trees above us he says:

(In the voice of Frank Rizzo from Jerky Boys)

"I'm tellin' ya, Joey, it's fuckin' beeyouteefull heer. I'm on like, a fuckin' boat or some shit cruisin' down this little rivah tru like a jungle. We just saw a spidah that wove a goldan web. I'm tellin' ya, we should move heer!"

Now, every time we see a NY plate I say this to her in my best NY accent. I don't even know how these tourists are finding this small rural county.

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