As I recall, it was the early '80s and our firm was reporting a large anti-trust suit involving Data General. The defendants were deposing numerous resellers of their products. This particular deposition was taking place in Midland, Texas.
Midland is in the Permian Basin in Texas with a contiguous city named Odessa.
It's an interesting part of Texas and at that time was booming. It was said that the only difference between the two cities was that in Odessa they had to wash their own Cadillacs. Anyway, back to our adventure in court reporting. The defendants were deposing a reseller with an outlet in Midland. The questioning got to the point of questioning this man's integrity.