This is a guest post.
Apparently, bloggingda'bullshit is getting in the fancy trend of letting other people write for it. Nevertheless, the post seems quite adequate for some of the "bullshit" I've been shoving on this webpage...
At one
time, the most popular television show in the United States featured
a banker who would do anything
to keep your account.
Fans of “The Beverly Hillbillies” (which is still in worldwide syndication and on cable’s TV Land) will fondly remember Milton Drysdale (played by actor Raymond Bailey), the head of the Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills, Ca.
Drysdale was ob
sessively focused on keeping accidental millionaire J.D. Clampett’s
fortune on deposit at the Commerce Bank. So focused that he became a
part of the Clampett family’s daily lives. Hilarity ensued.
Consider just some
of Drysdale’s actions: he recreated a replica of the Clampett’s
hill country log cabin in their backyard, complete with cawing
rooster. He followed them back to their Ozark homeland and bought a
local bank there just to maintain a controlling interest in their
money. He took some rock salt in his rear end from Granny’s
shotgun. He dressed up as a woman and an Indian chief.
The list goes on and
on, through nine seasons of television in an era where you could have
36-episode seasons. The message was clear: Drysdale was a banker who
cared. Maybe not for the best of reasons, but he really, truly, cared
about the account.
