Cal.E.'s Korner

d. (Ring) Cal.E., I asked you to write the blog by yourself yesterday because I was swamped. What happened?

C.: YOU were swamped?! You were swamped?!

d.: Yes, I was swamped. What were you doing?

C.: Well, let me tell you what “swamped” means. First, I got up early, around eighty-thirty a.m. that meant that I only got fourteen hours of sleep, instead of my usual sixteen to twenty.

T. and then had a nice, leisurely breakfast prepared by T’s chef. It took him a full ten minutes to boil our eggs. T said that the chef should have just served caviar, since those fish eggs don’t need to be cooked.  After our breakfast, we went for massages…

d.: And that’s your definition of a hard morning?

C.: Let me finish. After our massages, T and I went to some place called “Cat Smart.” That helped me see how T holds on to his money.

d.: Because he’s good at shopping for bargains?

C.: Boy, I’ll say. First, we went to have the tires on his car rotated and the oil changed. While we were doing that, we went inside and waited on our groceries. When the service person said he had an order for Tucker Tucker Two, a.k.a. The Cat Fighter Formerly Known As The Tuxedo (who really needs a shorter nickname) Now Simply Known As T Because Triple T Was Already Taken, T raised his hand, and the clerk gave him the groceries without even asking for identification! I mean, what if someone else had walked in and claimed the groceries by pretending to be my husband? And..T didn’t even have to pay for our groceries. Caviar and crab legs cannot be cheap, but he didn’t pay a penny for them.

Then, when we went to get his car, they just handed hi handed him his keys. He didn’t need to pay or identify himself. I was so exhausted from all that shopping and doing other important things that I had to go home and take a long catnap. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to sleep last night. That’s what I call being swamped!

d.: I see. All I did was drive two hundred miles, argue with government employees, go get the oil changed and the tires rotated in my truck and pick up groceries for my whole family.

C.: Did you pay for the groceries and the truck care?

d.: Yes, and so did T, I’m guessing. Beings that are as well known as your husband are so recognizable that no one would be able to emulate him well enough to full the people he deals with on a regular basis. And he probably paid for the groceries and the car care on line with one of his credit cards. That’s the way busy people (and cats, I suppose) take care of business.

That brings up a subject that I’ve thought about often. I had a professor in college that predicted all  this happening twenty years before it did. He said that, in this century, no one would steal cash, but identify theft would be a big problem. He also said that we would all carry hand-held computers that could also serve as phones, and every nine-year old, as well as adults and teenagers would have them. That was in 1984…

C.:  d.c.,, was that the same guy who told you to invest in the computer company that now rules the world when it went public? Wasn’t that just before that company started being traded on the open stock market? The one that's named for some kind of fruit?

d.:…That’s all the time we have for today, folks. Please join us tomorrow for another episode of Cal.E.’s Korner.

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