History tells that on March 10, 1876, the first telephone call was placed when Alexander Graham Bell called his assistant Thomas Watson, – saying: "Mr. Watson, come here – I want to see you."
Soon telephone sales took off, and they had their first customers, which were big businesses and wealthy people.
But here is what history did not record, and the basis for our Fable:
Eventually, those customers included, telemarketers, gossipy teenage girls and law firms seeking to sue everyone in sight, using their 1-800 telephone services.
Unable to take it anymore, Watson quit in frustration. “I don’t see a good future for the telephones,“ he said. “And I hate those law firms!”
“I want to go into a business with a great future, and one investors can be proud of, the manufacturing and selling of spittoons!”
Unfortunately, and ironically for Mr. Watson, some of his customers slipped on his spittoons, and he was sued by the very law firms his 1-800 telephone services helped to create.
With Love To All - Dick
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