There is another blog out there called Olsonomics...odd. It is about economics. I thought that I'd give the economics theme a try.
A couple of the dads back in the Falls taught us about economics. One dad thought up this policy and the other fathers decided to adopt it as well. This was the deal: you could take all the beer from the garage or basement fridge, but you'd have to put back 2 for every 1 beer you took. Damn sure they all kept a tally.
I see the flaw in this plan now, but somedays we'd be having a little party, or a campfire and we'd need a few beers. Sweaty, Pancake, French and I would see this as a solution to our lack of beers. The more beers we drank the more we took - a dumb vicious cycle.
One day French and I were putting 2 two-fours into my dad's beer fridge. Bruce Fish piped up: you boys been suckered.
Bruce Fish and my dad taught me a very valuable lesson in economics that day.
2 comments:
Ollie, was this parable about Wall Street? If not, it could be. Good one.
Hard to keep track of the beers when the bonfires start up in the falls. One technique could be to wash down two beers for every one whistledog. That way, later, when your explaining the missing beers to your Dad, he would get confused and start thinking about whistledogs. In the meantime you could fill all empty bottles with half another beer and top the both up with water and hammer back on the caps. He might ask you if you messed with his beer but you could say, "no, you bought light beer remember....hey! you want a whistledog?"
HP
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