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I just read that it's been 33 years since Dateline NBC tried to convince America that Estes rocket motors were OEM parts on 1973 to 1987 GM pickups.
I had something of a personal connection to this story.
Michael "Boom Boom" Gartner left NBC to come back to Iowa and run the Ames Tribune.
He'd order pizza from the place I worked as a delivery driver.
We'd fight over who had to take that order because he was a notoriously bad tipper.
As far as I know, I was the only driver who knew about his connection to Dateline NBC.
The other drivers just knew the tip would be bad and it'd happened enough they remembered the name and address.
We were very aware of the tips.
On the other hand there was a Mexican restaurant and a motel we fought to get the delivery.
Both were excellent sources of tips. Interestingly, the motel was the one the dancers at a local strip club stayed at. Strippers are EXCELLENT tippers. They were also very casual about getting dressed when answering the door.
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