My Potted Plant Outfit & I Have Been & Are Going to Be Very Busy

I was half awake watching TV and the Talking Head (who also seemed to be half awake) said that the Federal Government was spending a lot of money it did not have.

That did not jolt me awake because I thought to myself, “That’s not news. We do that every day”. Then I found myself Mind Wandering past this attempted kick start and I said to myself, “Self, if the Federal Government can spend money they do not have, people who do have money must really be riding high!”

That’s all it took for me to get out my Potted Plant Outfit and go looking for things that people with money were spending their money on...

Disney World

Before I knew it I was standing at the Ticket Counter at Disney World in Florida. It was just a matter of minutes before I saw a typical American Family of 4 come walking up to the Ticket Counter.

The Typical Father of the Typical Family inquired as to what it would cost for him and his Typical Family to go on in and spend a week in Mr. Disney’s Land.

The kid in the Ticket Booth with the Big Ears replied that it would be only $7,000. The Typical Father immediately removed his Typical Family of Four Credit Card and snapped it down and said, “You got a deal!”

Normally I don’t have good hearing but with my Potted Plan Outfit on my hearing definitely improves. I hear Typical Father say to Typical Mother as they twirled through the turnstiles, “Wow! That’s a steal! I was afraid it was going to be expensive!”

A moment later I heard Typical Son say to Typical Daughter, “Don’t worry. Typical Father promised me that we would not have to leave the hotel room and we could stay in there all day and play video games.”

This is a far cry from my own experience in 1962 when I and a fellow ROTC Cadet traveled from ROTC Summer Camp in Oklahoma to California (even though we were in mourning because Marilyn Monroe had just died) and I spent all my savings from my $1.12 an hour job at Avis Rent-a-Car.

We decided to go to Disneyland but we were shocked at the $6.75 Entrance Fee and we actually stood there staring at the sign that told us about the Exorbitant Entrance Fee for 10 minutes before we decided to bite the bullet and go on in.

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Duke Basketball... Jon Scheyer  is going to be Duke’s Basketball Coach next year. Unless he wins every game there will be cries to have him fired as soon as the Duke Fans take note that he is not Mike Krzyzewski .

I have followed Duke Basketball for many years. To be more exact, I have followed the career of the Duke Basketball Coach, Mike Krzyzewski, for many years. He is a Great Coach, an Impeccable Human Being and he is now coaching the last few games of a coaching career that has seen him amass more coaching wins than any other College Basketball Coach.

I shudder to think of how many low life sports reporters are burning the midnight oils trying to find some dirt that they can hit him with to soil his Great Guy Image as he goes into retirement and give the Dirt Finder 15 Minutes of Fame.

I’ll will now step down from my Soap Box and move on to why I brought up Duke Basketball in the first place.

I, inside Potted Plant Outfit, had stationed myself right next to the Ticket Counter at Cameron Indoor Stadium for the second to last game Coach Krzyzewski was to coach on his home court (the game was played last Saturday). The 2 extremes of the ticket prices were:

Ø Cheapest Ticket $900!

Ø Most Expensive Ticket $2,000!!

No, I did not buy either ticket.

My Suit and I will be back beside the Ticket Counter the week before Coach K will coach his last game on Cameron Indoor Stadium on March 5^th. The 2 extremes of the ticket prices at present are:

Ø Cheapest Ticket $2,950!!!

Ø Most Expensive Ticket $80,000!!!!

No, I will not buy either ticket.

Legend has it that it was on the cover of a book of matches that Eddie Cameron and Wallace Wade first sketched out the plan for Duke's Indoor Stadium in 1935. If I were Wallace Wade I would be wondering, “What am I Chopped Liver?”

I have often wondered if even Coach Krzyzewski can spell “Krzyzewski”. They have named Duke’s Home Court after him. It is supposed to be “Coach Krzyzewski Court” but the guy who was assigned the task of painting the court could not spell “Krzyzewski”, so the court is labeled “Coach K Court”.

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Virgin Galactic Space Flights...Virgin Galactic is going Commercial! 

There will not be a Ticket Counter for this one but, if you want to go along for the ride, simply go to virgingalactic.com and complete the application process.

My Suit and I will be there for the first flight. We will be cuddled up with the other bushes on a nearby hillside to watch the take off. The bulleted details are...

Ø 90 minute flight

Ø 50 miles up into space

Ø 4 to 5 minutes of weightlessness

Ø $150,000 Deposit

Ø Cost of the Ticket $450,000

They expect to have signed up 1,000 brave souls by the start of commercial service. Virgin has been gathering reservations over much of the decade, and had sold some 700 of the 1,000 by the end of November ‘21. 

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Some might say the Bottom Line of this Blog Posting is...

The Only Thing Money Can’t Buy Is Poverty

Would I kid u?

Smartfella