Living Amongst the Hoople Heads- The Sunday Collage
What exactly is a hoople head? I first heard the term in the wonderful "Deadwood" series and what follows is a perfectly good definition of that term. Hoople head referred to the people that made the hoops that went around wooden barrels . The job took little skill and very little intelligence...thus "hoople head " meant an unskilled, low intelligence laborer. I should also note that hooped barrels are long gone. But the hoople heads remain. I was once a hoople head myself. It was demonstrated to me on a car lot sometime in 1986. I had spent nearly an entire day struggling with a sales gal to have the retail price of a car I was interested in simply reduced to the high retail price for that car as listed in a N.A.D.A. book which back then- was some closely guarded secret. After six hours or so, they finally reduced the price. They even gave me a low book price for my trade in. Feeling triumphant, I signed the documents. I did not see the inflated interest rate un