My great uncle loves to tell the story of the tax man visiting my maternal great grandfather's farm in about 1950 when the only tractor they had was a Fordson.
Up through the 50's, Indinan tax assessors would visit individuals homes to assess personal property taxes on 'luxuries'. Two things happened on this visit, one, the tax man saw the Fordson and asked if that was their only tractor. My great grandfather replied 'Yes.' Tax man, 'And you're man enough to run it?' (Great grandpa died when I was 4, but I remember he wasn't a big guy). Great grandpa replied, 'Guess so.' The tax man felt sorry for him and said he would just pretend he didn't see it.
The second thing that happened was my great grandparents had an upright piano, which I guess was a big luxury and assessed at a higher rate. My great grandfather had disguised it as a cupboard and had steered the tax man away from it the whole visit. My grandmother, 15 at the time and as oblivious to her surroundings then as when I knew her, came down stairs, asked why the piano was covered, and began playing (she loved the piano, something her loss of hearing took from her before her death).
So on that day, my grandfather beat the tax man on the Fordson, but lost on the piano.
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