A few months ago, I was listening to a Jerry Clower tape and You know My family plays som Jerry Clower Sometimes. There's this one story that really cracked me up good. It's called the, "Maddest Man I Ever Saw." The Story would begin with Clower talking about the Illinois Central's, "Panama Limited" He would begin the story talking about Marcel Ledbetter going off to war and he kissed his mother and he ends up kissing the bulb of Hammond, Louisiana. Now that train takes off. One evening in Chicago, Illinois A traveling Fertilizer salesman who had an appointment in Mississippi, gets on the "Panama Limited" and tells the porter, "Sir, In the morining, I gotta get off at Winona, Miss. It's a life and death situation. Will you wake me up when we get to Winona? I may get a little jumpy when somebody wakes me up, looks like I may want to fight. But please, wake me up when we get to Winona, Miss." The train left Chicago. And soon it passed towns like Urbana, Ill.; Effingham; Cairo; Dyersburg and Memphis, Tenn, Batesville, Miss.; Grenada, Miss. and guess where the salesman end up at? McComb, Miss. The salesman looks out the window and when he saw the sign said McComb, Miss. He was infuriated. When he saw the porter, he lashed out at him and beat him crazy. And when the salesman left, The porter got up and asked his co-worker, "Isn't this the maddest man I ever saw?" His co-workers says, "Ain't none madder than that." "Who would that be?" "The last man I put off at Winona, Miss." Whoever understands this story Contact me.
