"I'm not Donald Trump. I'll fuck your shit up".

[A HERETIC I AM]

36. I believe you.

In the early 90's I worked for a firm that had offices in the engineering area of Detroit Diesel in Redford, MI.

A few of the guys had gone over to a Russian mine to install a large Detroit into a mining truck and had to go back a couple months later to follow up. The second time they took a shitload of those regular, run of the mill Bic pens, both the click style and regular. The Detroit guys gave a few away the first trip and they were an enormously well received gift and the mechanics and technicians over there thought they were priceless.

One of the engineers told me the Russian guy he worked closest with told him the rest of the people looked at that pen as something to be envied.

So when they went back, they took a couple thousand. Spent maybe a hundred bucks at an Office Depot.

Batteries too. D-cell, AA's, all of them. And small flashlights. A small, AAA battery powered flashlight that fits in your shirt pocket. Pure gold to them. Stuff like that.

So yeah, I believe you.

Edit to add;

It's not that it was just a pen or a flashlight or simple batteries, it was that the products WORKED.