My excuse for slacking off

As you may have noticed from my husband’s posting a blog entry for me (sneaky, he is) I was dead tired last night and in no mood to blog.  I have a good excuse though!  My husband and I had purchased tickets to see Neil Finn play at Largo, and after our weekend to San Francisco, we completely forgot about the concert.  Luckily I remembered that afternoon or we would have been doing laundry and grocery shopping while the band played on.

Before the show we grabbed a bite to eat at Kings Road Cafe, and overheard one of the funniest conversations in awhile.  Some musician, who wasn’t famous enough for me to recognize, sat down across from his friends.  He launched into a story about how when he was in Milan and Donatella Versace recognized him.  “Come to my store,” she said to him.  “I’ll close it down for you.”

The musician thought it would be a trip, so he and his friend went.  “Come,” Donatella said, “pick what you like and take whatever you want.  You can have what you want.”

“Sweet,” this guy thought.  “It’s free.”

He and his friend went on a shopping spree, picking out things they would never wear, like leather shirts with gold studs, all because he thought it was free.  When it was time to leave the store, Donatella says, “Let me just take your credit card in case.”

“In case what?” the guy thought.  That’s when he realized that what he thought was free wasn’t free.

He and his friend walked out.  “Holy cow,” his friend said.  “I spent 35 million lira.”

They did the math.  “That’s thirty five thousand dollars.”

The musician sighed.  “I guess I got off lucky.  I only spent seventeen grand.”

There’s a lesson to be learned in there.

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