K.C. Irving: Competing with Giants

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A man interrupts his meeting to answer. You Irving, the oil man, the collar says. Yes, sir, I am. Well, this is Mulrooney of Saint Patrick Street. Where the hell's my oil? Mulrooney had a cold house and an empty furnace, and a reasonable suspicion that someone at the oil company had forgotten about him.

And he decided that somebody important is going to hear about it. He has no idea how spectacularly he has succeeded. Well, sir, I'm very sorry to hear that, the oil man replies. And it's a cold day too, isn't it? He wrote down the address, hung up, and called the oil yard.

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