It wouldn't be uncommon for Wade to have heard of Wesley, especially if Wade has worked lots of bars and clubs in the Midwest. A rich individual, especially one with as much local pull as Wesley, might be known across state lines, to bikers, truckers, and folks involved in music, liquor, bars, clubs, etc.
For instance, most of my family is scattered across small towns between San Antonio and Houston, like New Braunfels, Seguin, Shiner and Gonzales. But if someone is "money", they'll be a local celebrity across several small towns. If someone has big oil or farming money, their last name might be known across Texas, Oklahoma or Louisiana. They're like small town rock stars lol, and the girls at bars definately know who their sons are!
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mobocracy (846)
5 years ago
Having known small-town money, you are exactly right. They are big deals in their town and usually pretty well known in neighboring towns.
The people I knew were big in their town of about 8,000 (their father had owned and built up the town's biggest bank) and EVERYBODY knew who they were. My wife was best friends growing up with the banker's daughter, and she is kind of like royalty. I mean she has followers, women who seem to be always with her and they're always sucking up to her.
Ironically her biggest competitor is her sister-in-law on her husband's side. Her and her husband own 3 bars and a lake resort, and built it all up from scratch. It adds up to real competition, the bar owner "earned" her money but because she worked for it (in a small town bar) and didn't grow up rich, she's kind of less sophisticated than the banker's daughter who has small town "taste" -- drives an Escalade and has a ton of tacky decorations in her oversize suburban house. It looks like a low-rent version of HGTV.
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