So, do you remember that scene in the Austin Powers movie where Dr. Evil ransoms the earth for a whopping $1 million dollars? The reaction on the faces of the army guys is priceless. You can tell they're thinking "What an idiot!" They know, and just like you and I know, that a million dollars just doesn't take you very far. Sure you could pay off your debt, buy a reasonably nice but not extravagant house, maybe a new car or two and that's it.
Here's another remember when thought. When playing The Game of Life, I always wanted to land on the "Congratulations, you're a doctor. Your annual salary is $50,000." Hitting this key spot on the board pretty much ensured that you would end up on millionaire's row, especially if your opponent/sibling landed on the "Congratulations, you're a teacher. Your annual salary is $24,000." Then I knew there would be no competition, and the game was already won. Life was good.
Lets jump ahead 20 years to today. It was lunch time and my family and I were eating at Chipotle, a favorite of ours. I was having carnitas burritos, and JL was digging into a burrito bol. Naturally the kiddos were splitting a quesadilla, and in actuality were eating more chips than actual food. We're having an average lunch costing about $20 for the four of us. Suddenly JL gets a grin on his face and gives me the classic line, "Don't look, but....
Well, it wasn't a movie star, but the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, sitting at the table directly behind us with his wife.
Now, being in the know, JL let me know that the accumulated wealth of said person was hovering at around 4 billion dollars. Not 4 million, we're talking B-I-L-L-I-O-N baby.
So I slyly stood up and sashayed past them to refill my Diet Coke so I could get a look.
I made note that neither of them looked anything out of the ordinary. Just a man in a dress shirt having a quick lunch. What separated them and us on the outside was merely a couple of decades, but if you looked in our wallets then wowee, the differences really add up.
JL and I joked that we could comfortably afford to eat at Chipolte a couple of times a week for the rest of our lives but the next table could eat there every meal for the next 16,000 years and still not run out of money. Now that's a lot of burritos baby.
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Note that Amy had the wisdom not to say anything specific about the subjects of her post, such as whether they took the burrito or burrito bol option or the color of the dress shirt. Search [google blackballs cnet] to find out how a difference over the definition of privacy, as it relates to the subject in question, can have ramifications.
Noted (And chuckled).
That story is refreshing.
I think I would have gone for the burrito bol option.
Oh, and I had to borrow $1.98 from my dad to by a burrito at Taco Bell yesterday. If we were playing "Life" you would kick my tail every time.
Not Risk, though!
:D
P.S.
Sorry about our previous conversation being cut off, JL. My lame computer crashed and died.
Talk about the cobbler's wife having no shoes...
JL--Thanks for finally commenting.
Lo--I'll buy you lunch anyday, and not just at Taco Bell! And you're right--I suck at Risk--I just want everyone to get along.
Thanks to wikipedia I now know that I was in proximity the 146th wealthiest person in the world.
That's a hilarious story. My only competition story-wise is when I was at Cafe Rio in Provo for my birthday and we saw Merrill Bateman. I instructed my cousin to pretend to re-fill his drink while Bateman was at the soda machine. He observed that then-President Bateman served himself a soda screwdriver that included caffeinated beverages...the best birthday present ever!! haha
ps They built a Chipotle here in Manassas by the new Walmart. I get a vegetarian burrito bol every time. Yum!!
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