“Used to send him down to the casino with 50s to play slots for him and let him know if he wins.”

"On their next trip to the island, they decided it would be easier if they had their own boat, so they bought a 34-foot dive boat. Then they figured they might want to move it from one side of the island to another depending on conditions, so they bought a trailer and a truck to tow it. After that, they decided it would be easier still if they had their own scuba compressor to refill tanks at home. All of this was for maybe two weeks per year. ‘Just charter a damn boat for the time you are on the island.’"

"For some reason, he'd never wear the same shirt twice. His wife bought him really nice branded button shirts like YSL. He'd wear them once, she'd wash, iron and repack them and give them to charity shops. That seemed to be his only quirk; he was absolutely sensible about the rest of his life."

"I met someone who owns a different company and also a wood kiln. He has a 5-acre warehouse with stacks of rare wood worth millions. Some is endangered and can no longer be imported. He does not do woodworking. He bought it all as a precursor to a hobby he probably won't do anything with. Some stacks are worth 100k a pop. The kicker: he wants to wholesale stuff I make without paying me up front for orders."

"I was so excited to make some food in a pro-level home kitchen, but they didn’t even have salt… They had someone bring in 12 different varieties of salt before I started cooking that were purchased from a boutique. Oh, but the wine and spirit selection was top tier, lol."

"I remember seeing them during the winter, and they still had the pool in operating condition, no cover or anything. It was also heated, so you could literally see the steam coming out of the pool. The kicker? They said no one used it during the winter because it was too cold."

"The place was huge. These people also had a house in Colorado, and there was a rock there that they wanted to add to the Connecticut project. So they paid for the engineers, crane, riggers, and trucking company to move this rock, about the size of a car, from Colorado to Connecticut. It was chained down on a flatbed and driven across the country. A rock. I was getting paid $4.40 an hour and had to buy my own safety gear."

"I contacted the place, had them par-bake the pizzas. Took them to another place to blast-freeze them. Packed them in dry ice and chartered a plane to fly direct to CR. Sourced a pizza oven that went with the pizzas. Chartered a seaplane to fly it off the coast to deliver. $200 worth of pizza for $1.3m!"

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