Mine: Once had a meeting with a guy that wanted to be a Starlink distributor in a developing country. His first time in country, had just arrived like 24 hours before. Knew nothing and no one. No idea why he wanted to talk to me, but, whatever…
Wanted to have his “business partner” in on the meeting, and called some douche that talked for 5 solid minutes about how he could see the Cape Kennedy launch tower from his window and whatever else about how amazing he was and so tied in to Elon and all this BS. Called long distance on a real phone line to the States. Not WhatsApp, not even a VOIP or Wifi calling call. I watched him dial +1… he had a local SIM.
Turns out neither of them even knew which ministry they would need to start with to get a permit for satellite internet service. They just wanted to sell dishies in country and had no idea how to even start a business locally. Didn’t look at a single thing online before coming out. They didn’t even know about local content policies that effectively meant they needed a local business to sponsor them. I sat and searched online with the guy and showed him everything they needed to see, which was on 1 website.
This was before COVID, and the country only got Starlink 2 years ago.
Was riding around in a little Honda with my friend, who was about 6’3 and 240lbs of solid muscle. Well some road rager didn’t like our driving, and got out of his car at a light while we were a few cars back and walked towards us. About halfway, my friend just steps out of the Honda, and the guy freezes in his tracks, hesitates, and walked directly back to his car without a word. The other people stopped at the light were laughing