Pickles & Trout

In talking to Dana Trout today, got some interesting stories. For those that don't already know, the origin of the name, Pickles & Trout, came from a day when both Dana Trout and Greg Pickles were in a bank getting some travelers checks to attend an auction. The details are a bit fuzzy, but Dana was talking with someone in the bank line and his and Gregs last names came up. At the point that Pickles & Trout had exited his line and made it over to the line Greg was in, they knew they had to do something. And the result was the company name, Pickles & Trout. They had hired a guy to field phone calls, and one day Dana got asked by this new guy to talk to a very irrate customer. After taking the call, the customer thought they were being played around with and didn't like it one bit. Why? They had called Pickles & Trout for some help and got someone calling themselves Herring on the line :). It hadn't occurred to any of them when this new guy was hired, his last name would cause any type of ruckus like this. Later on while talking to this guy, he said he had cut off his beard for the interview to try and make a good impression. Since both Dana and Greg had beards, it was kind of funny!