Re: On the road again

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 22:39:41 -0400, Neon John <no@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The auctioneer is lined up to clear the
building to the walls and I'm ready to roll! (If anyone is interested
in buying my recipes - think of them as instant restaurant, just add a
storefront - drop me a note privately.)

I'm now going to indulge a life-long fantasy - I'm going to spend the
next 5 or so years before I retire for good driving a big rig
long-haul. I just got my CDL learner's permit and I start the driving
class at the local community college a week from Monday.

I'm sorry to hear that something apparently has gone badly amiss in your
life's plan.

Five or six years ago you bragged here more than once about how you'd
made a fortune (if that's not the exact word you used, the intent was
clearly there) in your various "engineering" and "consulting" ventures
and had gone into the restaurant business only as a hobby because you
like good food. At that point you told us you were just biding your time
until you could go fulltime RVing in a year or so in your old 24' (?)
Class C.

Next thing we heard was that you were trying desperately to sell the
restaurant and/or its old, rundown building -- where you also live --
which is located on the edge of a seedy section near downtown. Tried
that for a couple of years -- no takers either way. Hmmm. Wonder why.

Then you mentioned recently that you had done some plumbing in the
restaurant because you were broke (that's the word you used) and it was
cheaper for you to do it yourself. "Broke"? But you had told us you had
loads of money....

Now we see that you've impulsively closed your restaurant, without
notice to the public or to your employees, and are auctioning off the
contents of the building -- not exactly the best way to recover your
investment in a supposedly prosperous business. (Besides, if you were so
well off, why didn't you just give it to your most loyal employees and
change their lives? You could have structured it as a tax loss, I'm
sure, with the phalanx of lawyers and tax experts you surely must have
at your beck and call.)

So if you ever had that fortune you told us about, you apparently went
through it in a few short years. Must have taken some combination of bad
management, ineffective marketing, employee turnover (wonder why), tax
problems, messy divorce, etc. Now you're going to work as a long-haul
trucker -- and would have us believe it's a lifelong dream come true
(yeah, right <snicker>) -- to pay the bills until you can finally afford
to retire.

John, you have occasionally given helpful technical advice here --
albeit too often smothered in your own self-adulation -- but personally,
you're just full of bull, and I have trouble believing anything you say.
(Not that I expect you to care, of course <g>.)

Anyway, good luck -- and I mean that sincerely, because you're gonna
need it. Keep those log books straight and watch out for those cops you
hate so much. They may be waiting for you and your guns -- and
especially your bad attitude....

GB in NC
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