Link of the Day [11.20.08]
Today’s Thursday and I want to make you cry. Not some sad song of lost love or lost youth. Not some lamentation for a forgotten friend or for the young man cut down in the prime of his life.
No, I got some sadness that’ll grow hair on your head. Make you crawl back to bed. Look to upping your Xanax dosage.
The US auto companies are asking us for their help.
A couple of years back, I was at Barnes and Nobles on a Friday night. There was a lady wandering the parking lot with a sad story to tell. She was crying, blubbering about her daughter. She asked me for some money for the bus to get to her. “Sure,” I replied and gave her a five to help her on her way. The next week I run into her again. She’s crying again giving the same spiel. “I heard this one last week, lady,” I say angry that I was suckered the week before.
That’s just sad. Like the woes of GM.
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That lady still hasn’t caught the bus? I gave her a dollar in 94′ and so did Sherp. Maybe she’s saving up for the bus to Europe.
my favorite tidbit was that the car execs took private jets to get to washington. how disconnected can you be?
@theseed: She no longer haunts that bus stop. As the BN isn’t as good for business as Bibelot was.
@m: Then they took electric cars to the capitol and parked in a handicap space!!
@ m: when i saw that, i shook my head and laughed. funny thing is i saw it in Fox News and actually liked what i saw. then they gave an estimate of how much the one way trip using the jet costs, and how much a first class ticket to a commercial airline cost.
difference: around 18K i believe. and i think its much cheaper than that even. (i dont even know what other stuff they added to end up with like around 2K for a commercial airline. )