I'm still at a loss to explain this event, 30 years later!

I'd like to preface this testimony by saying, that everything you are about to read, is absolutely 100% the truth, with absolutely no embellishment whatsoever...only the name(s) were changed.

It was 1988. As an entrepreneur, I was in my first year, of a newly formed cellular telephone dealership. 

I had a business partner who was a former auto mechanic. He joined me as a silent partner, due to a bankruptcy he was going through. He exchanged his labour expertize for a cash investment in the business. 

It worked out very well, initially. I'd do the selling, and he'd do all the installations into customers vehicles.