Day 99

Day 99

 

Stock-piling toilet paper due to a

“paper shortage and timber unrest” rumor

 

Well! Now! Speculation was that wood products were going to become painfully scarce.

We had just relocated to the Great Northwest---beautiful Oregon-country. The infamous Hunt-brothers had recently tried, almost successfully, to corner the silver market. I had a few bucks in my jeans at the time, and, when the timber industry suffered the evil media prognostication that its demise was eminent, well, I just decided to corner the market on “toilet paper” knowing that tree-huggers would eventually preclude the manufacture of the “necessary” product. So, I bought “a lot” of the commodity and stored it in the garage attic.

 Oh! My wife and kids and the neighbor laughed at my foolishness; I’ve been laughed at, before. I offered to let the neighbor come in on my takeover of the industry; he scoffed at me.

 So? Time came to “move-on”, back to the Midwest (actually, Nashville, Tennessee and a stint for Beth at Vanderbilt University for a law degree). We loaded up the U-Haul, household goods, a ton of white “soft” tissue paper, and---set out on another expedition of adventure.

 No! I did not rival the Hunt-boys with that fiasco, but we didn’t buy tissue for years! Ha! Ha!

 

Nobody gets it right---all the time!?

Some of us never get it right…anytime!

 

Just so everybody has everything they might need.

 

C’est la vie! Mon Amie! C’est la vie!

 

Ah! Cookie Jar “hoarder” Sweet Memories!