A Texas oil man heard that there were cars in East Germany so popular that buyers had to wait years to take delivery of one. He immediately sent a check to the Trabi factory.
The directors, sensing a propaganda coup in the making, arranged to send him the very next car off the line.
Two weeks later the oil man was in a bar, speaking with some friends.
“Ah ordered me one o’ them Trabis them folks over there in East Germany wait 12 years to get,” he drawled.
“And you know what? Them East Germans are so efficient. Wah, just last week they sent me over a little plastic model so I can know what to expect!”
(Taken from http://www.nickselby.com/2013/08/25/and-now-a-little-trabant...)