Maxon’s Folly

October 16, 2007, 2:30 pm; posted by
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Best of Job, September 2006.

A good friend of mine recently spent $75 and got a huge return on his investment. A shockingly good return that increases its value daily and, by all appearances, has no ceiling.

In fact, if Steve had been alive in March 1867, his $75 could have bought him 3,000 acres of Alaskan real estate — and many would have laughed at him. They would have said, most likely, that those funds could’ve been “spent on a fine buggy and horse of reasonable temperament, the right which being the good of the same, and with a full assortment of bits and collars for the beast.”

I’ve been thinking lately about what the best $75 I ever spent was, and I think it was a trip I made to Houston to thaw out once. Sunny, sublime and solitary, I was very enthusiastic for a while upon my return from the desert…

But that passes.

I spent $75 on my digital camera, the display model at Wal*Mart. I enjoy the thing but it is limited by my ineptitude.

I’ve spent the sum of $75 over and over again…and will many more times I am sure.

But I think the next time I have a disposable $75, I’m going to send it to Steve and tell him to go all Seward’s Folly on it for me.

Do it, Steve.

 

Daddy needs a new pair of shoes.


Comments

10 Comments to “Maxon’s Folly”

  1. Connie on October 16th, 2007 3:22 pm

    You’re so vague. The links don’t really go anywhere. It’s a good thing I whereof he speaks…

  2. David M. on October 16th, 2007 4:28 pm

    As the head of the Maxon clan I take umbrage to your comments or at least, at the title….

  3. David on October 16th, 2007 5:50 pm

    I could not make the links work either.

  4. Steve on October 16th, 2007 6:03 pm

    The links go to categories of posts.

  5. David on October 16th, 2007 6:11 pm

    So Bweinh was the investment? What does Bweinh stand for anyway?

  6. Steve on October 16th, 2007 6:49 pm

    Did you note which categories of posts the links went to? Bweinh! is not the answer, although to answer your question, it stands for truth, justice and freedom.

  7. Tom on October 16th, 2007 7:38 pm

    The payoff is CHLOE CHLOERSON!

  8. Chloe on October 17th, 2007 5:16 am

    Chloe Chloerson? Steve! Who is that?! You are in so much trouble…

  9. Connie on October 17th, 2007 11:40 am

    One of the links went to Steve’s post and one went to Chloe’s post. I get it, but it’s becuase I knew it. You’re a wiry little one you are…

  10. David on October 17th, 2007 5:51 pm

    Ah.

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