Hot Cute Fun Guy and I are talking about Wall Street.
Lisa: “It’s getting scary out there.”
HCFG: “Don’t I know it. I see companies imploding every day.”
Lisa: “This crash is happening so fast. Almost like it’s overnight. Where did all the money go?”
You guys are so cute together! What a romantic picture you paint.
BTW, I see incredibly over qualified candidates apply for entry level jobs all the time. It’s a tough market in my business.
It’s scary! My oldest son is having a tough time getting started right out of college, and he’s just about ready to give in and go back to waiting tables for awhile. Wow, that’s why we paid the bucks to send him to college! Right?
The current financial situation is very much like being in the middle of a nest of tornados scouring the landscape and sucking up everything in their path. As soon as one goes by without inhaling you, and you let out a sigh of relief, you turn around and there’s another one suddenly bearing down. The speed by which things are happening, and the violence of each wave of this unfolding catastrophe, is well beyond the worst nightmares of people so pessimistic that they were dismissed as delusional a few months ago.
Even though this devastation is playing out on the landscape of traders’ computer screens and newspapers’ front pages rather than on the landscape of towns being turned into firewood by the wind, it’s still frightening to watch. The closer to the center and the more you know, the scarier it gets.
So when Lisa and I had the conversation she described, we were both acutely aware of the danger and the violence happening around us, and the devastation being wrought. We felt much like children in the eye of the storm – completely and utterly powerless. Mankind’s total scientific progress plus our individual knowledge and resourcefulness avail us nothing. That degree of powerlessness is something I have never experienced before. So there really is nothing else to do but just hold each other and wait for the storm to blow itself out, then pick up, dust off, regroup and make the best of what we’ve got.
–HCFG
I have always kept my money as well as my 401k in my mattress. I sleep well at night.
First, I just love the outlook you two have and your way of dealing. It makes me smile
Second, It seems so hard to understand this economy when we’re pumping gas at nearly $4.00/gallon, and food is ridiculously high. Then the utilities (gas, water, electric) impose high % rate hikes (our water company the 2nd time in 6-months). Then the government issues a ‘bailout’ and gas suddenly drops to $2.65/gallon, but food is still ridiculously high. The utility rate hikes don’t reverse back down either. I don’t understand this. If it were only about the gasoline that would be one thing, but if gas can come back down, why can’t the other?? And I live in an energy producing state! (Scratching my head, and other body parts in contemplation, lol!)