It is a little known fact that before he became a famous
movie star Yul Brynner had a job in a bank. He was
responsible for processing loan applications, and had a
very strict boss. One unbreakable rule was that when Yul
had an application ready for approval, he was to give it
to an office boy to walk it down the hall to the Loan
Processsing Department - he was never to do this himself,
but was to stay in his own office at all times.
One day a very important man came in to set up a loan.
This man was very impatient, and when Yul could not find an
office boy to take the paperwork to the loan department,
the man insisted that Yul do it himself to save precious
time. Brynner let himself be bullied into it, with some
misgivings.
As bad luck would have it, on his way down the hall he
passed an open window, and a sudden breeze tore the papers
out of his hand into the street below! He panicked when
he realized he would have to tell his boss that the papers
were lost! Very fearful of being fired, he confessed to
his deed, but he was not fired.
Instead his boss gave him an ultimatum. He said he would
let this one infraction go, but in the future...
"Yul, never walk a loan!"
