4) Vince Terrorized His Military School
Vince McMahon is a notorious practical-joker backstage of WWE. It is something that he has been doing his whole life as evident from some of these stories from his time in military school. He says that he used to steal the Colonel’s car at military school and take it for joy rides:
“I was lucky and a little crafty — I wasn’t caught for some stuff that would have meant immediate dismissal, like stealing the commandant’s car. Colonel Zinneker had an old, green, beat-up Buick, and he always left the keys in it”
He also says that he once fed one of the Colonel’s dogs a laxative:
“He also had a dog he was nuts about. I love animals, but one day I couldn’t resist giving that dog a laxative. I put the laxative in some hamburger and the dog did his business all over the commandant’s apartment, which thrilled me greatly”
Looks like we know where Vince got his aptitude for practical jokes. Lucky for Vince as he mentions, he never got caught as he would have been kicked out of the school and who knows where he would have ended up.
3) Vince Was A Terrible Student
You might not know that Vince McMahon attended and graduated East Carolina University with a degree in business in the late 60’s. Vince says that he was never really ‘school smart’:
“I hated economics. Sat in the back row, didn’t like the subject. It’s about numbers, not people. Wasn’t wild about statistics, either…. I didn’t do well scholastically. Had a grade point average of 2.001. You needed a two-point average to graduate”
He says that his graduation came down to a couple of classes. He had to knock on his professor’s doors personally in order to get them to change his grade:
“I had to go back to a couple of professors to get them to change me from a B plus to an A, or I wouldn’t have made it…. I guess they didn’t expect a knock on the door from a student who wouldn’t take no for an answer. Someone who was saying he’s been here five years, and his wife’s been here three and she’s graduating and she’s pregnant. Now they figure this kid has either made up a hell of a story or maybe it’s true. Either way, it didn’t hurt them to change the grade”
Now that is persistence. Something that Vince McMahon is known for and why he has been so successful in his lifetime.
2) Vince Worked As A Salesman And HATED It
Vince got a job after college as a salesman. His wife Linda had just given birth to their first-born child: Shane McMahon and he needed to support the family. He held numerous sales jobs but couldn’t handle it. Here is Vince telling the story about his time as a salesman and how much he hated it:
“I’m not good with ****ing machines. They have no personality. I went from there to a job selling cups and Sweetheart ice cream cones for the Maryland Cup Corp. in Owings Mills, right outside Baltimore. I would get up early and work a zillion hours, but it wasn’t for me, I mean, they want you to talk about the characteristics of the ****ing cup”
“It’s a paper cup with a plastic coating, and it has a certain lip-type thing. They cook it at such and such a temperature. One day there I am, selling this guy on the cup , and he looks at me and says, “Son, you don’t really give a damn about that cup.” I said, “No, I don’t, and thank you very much.” That was it for that job”
Vince was destined for much more than a regular job in sales.
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