Back about about '97 or so, on a slow Sunday at the Zone in Corpus, I had two guys come in to by auto parts. They spoke no English and what they did speak I recognized as 'Eastern European' though I could not speak any. About that time Dimitri, our resident Russian fisherman who was a regular customer, came in... talk about timing.. I sold the two, with Dimitri interpreting, parts for a US built Ford they had back in Odessa.. about $500 worth of stuff... and a few hours later half the crew from their boat, loading about two miles away at the port, were in the store scarfing up all kinds of 'neat' auto related trinkets to take home. They all got Auto Zone caps free too.. LOL.
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