theindependenteye
03-16-2014, 04:59 PM
I had a fight with my sister. I have a sister. She’s okay except for her theories of economics. She’s a whore cause she’s gotta make a living, and I’m a fool, same reason. You do what you’ve got a talent for, and what the Invisible Hand of the Market demands. To hear her tell it, the hands she deals with are pretty visible.
We don’t fight much. But we got into it big on why should a few guys have all the money?
My thing was, if everybody got a raise, just a little more, I could go out on the street, put out a pot for tips, and tell jokes. They’d toss in a buck or two, if I’m good. Spread the wealth.
Her thing was, she doesn’t want to keep doing cheap back-alley tricks. She’s got aspirations. She’s aiming high. All she needs is hit it big with a billionaire. The more billionaires, the better the odds.
Would they hire a fool to make them laugh if they’re not up to the other thing? I asked.
They don’t need to laugh, she said.
They don’t ever laugh? I asked.
Sure, they laugh at the people they screw — meaning that metaphorically, she said. (She was an English major.)
But she said I should be a big comedian on TV and make a million bucks but I’d have to work late and stand up when I tell a joke. Be a stand-up comedian. But I don’t see anything funny about standing up unless you fall down, and there’s no future in that.
And I don’t see any point in having billionaires if they don’t give me some money. She says they’re there to set an example. Example of what? Making billions, she said.
But my sister hasn’t scored any billionaires yet. I told her stop working truck stops.
- Damned Fool
(channeled by C. Bishop & E. Fuller, www.DamnedFool.com (https://www.DamnedFool.com))
We don’t fight much. But we got into it big on why should a few guys have all the money?
My thing was, if everybody got a raise, just a little more, I could go out on the street, put out a pot for tips, and tell jokes. They’d toss in a buck or two, if I’m good. Spread the wealth.
Her thing was, she doesn’t want to keep doing cheap back-alley tricks. She’s got aspirations. She’s aiming high. All she needs is hit it big with a billionaire. The more billionaires, the better the odds.
Would they hire a fool to make them laugh if they’re not up to the other thing? I asked.
They don’t need to laugh, she said.
They don’t ever laugh? I asked.
Sure, they laugh at the people they screw — meaning that metaphorically, she said. (She was an English major.)
But she said I should be a big comedian on TV and make a million bucks but I’d have to work late and stand up when I tell a joke. Be a stand-up comedian. But I don’t see anything funny about standing up unless you fall down, and there’s no future in that.
And I don’t see any point in having billionaires if they don’t give me some money. She says they’re there to set an example. Example of what? Making billions, she said.
But my sister hasn’t scored any billionaires yet. I told her stop working truck stops.
- Damned Fool
(channeled by C. Bishop & E. Fuller, www.DamnedFool.com (https://www.DamnedFool.com))