A Sad Posting "The Bomb"
Friday the 8th of March (one of my typical days out) I stopped by the local "hot spot" for their happy hour menu, I like their Mussels.
When entering I was lucky to find a seat at the corner of the bar where 4 women (2 on each side), the one lady was very nice and the other 2 on my left said they had seen me in Brigantine and mentioned I sang the "Fu*k song" I corrected her and said, my wife sings that song (the actual title is "The Rodeo Song"). We spent about 10-15 mins talking and they left.
Within seconds a group of 5 people came in and took the seats, the older of the five was sitting 4 seats from me and wanted to talk with me, his son (I later found out) switch seats so his father could sit next to me, the other 2 people were his daughter and S-I-L. The old man looked around my age but turned out to be almost 15 years younger, to both our amazement.
Our conversation continued where we shared our home locations and that he had a permit to purchase "Cannabis" and showed me his card (I don't do drugs) so I was a little apprehensive regardless of his need, but he seemed to be a gentleman.
As we talked he told me he and his (second) wife did a lot of traveling and he told me she was a black lady he met after his divorce 12 years ago. He told me she was a "Wall Street" person for about 30 years and had lots of experience in investments. Then he hit me with the "BOMB".
He asked if I remembered the last market crash about 3 months ago, of course I did, I derive my income from stocks, he said his wife became so overwrought that she decided to HANG HERSELF. I was so sad, it was obvious they shared a very happy life together.
BTW, he never mentioned one thing about my "Cross-dressing" obviously it made no difference to him.
1 comment:
I am glad to see you back in the world of blogging. In my view you always have something worthwhile to say.
I am very sorry to hear about that man's loss but I think that the time he spent with Louise did serve to bring some joy and pleasure to him.
It is hard to fathom someone killing themselves over losses in the market. As I am moving into retirement I have been rebalancing my assets so that only a portion is in stocks with the rest in fixed income. Nevertheless the period from October through Christmas Eve was very rough, especially the drubbing the market took on Christmas Eve.
Since then the market has been generally good although for a while today it was down 400 points. I am a disaster at investing so I just try to plod along and not lose too much when times get ugly.
Keep blogging
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