You look like an honest man so I’ll give you the $200 right now." explained Ti, also giving the man a card with his phone number. "I want you to unload and count each one and then put them back on the truck and come by the McCurdy Hotel at four this afternoon. "What is that?" answered the man thinking of his good fortune, wondering if this slick looking man was jesting with him. "I’ll give you $200 for the load, but there’s something you must do for me." Ti said. "Well, I don’t know, maybe $75," the farmer replied, ready to negotiate a lower price if that startled this strange customer. "No, I mean for all of them." Ti countered. "How much do you want for those watermelons?" Ti asked. His mind started clicking and on the other side of town he stopped and waited for the truck. As he approached Wadesville, he passed a watermelon truck. A typical Titanic exploit occurred when Thompson was driving back from White County in Illinois.
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