Great story Jim.
I used to work at a horse racing related company doing phone support. As Jim said, Mickey was a big horse racing fan. Don't know how it started, but he found us somehow and started calling one of my co-workers just about every Saturday.
I had the pleasure of talking with him a couple of times when I filled in. My feeling was that the guy was either very lonely or else we were the only ones around at 8am he could tell stories too. And as Jim said, the guy was a GREAT story teller. All you had to do was give him a name and off he'd go. I got the feeling he just loved to talk and he was darned good at it.
He'd always want to know who we liked in some of the big stakes races. So maybe he was just trading stories for tips. He never did become a customer.
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