Friends, as part of my agenda to make the world a better place, for some months I’ve been recommending in my sidebar that we give up polluting cars and buy a bicycle.
Reuters, in an article today, showed off a series of items which multi-millionaires and billionaires buy and enjoy. Among the many items shown at various ‘Luxury Please” fairs was this 24-carat, gold-plated, gem-encrusted bike which can be yours for the small sum of $100,017. 60.
If you want to dazzle your friends, become the talk of the town, turn up to your next party wheeling one of these goodies. You must, of course, park it in the host’s lounge room to take away the temptation for someone from the peasantry to steal it but you must warn other guests not to put their caviar-stained fingerprints on it.
Yes, folks, there exists a whole world that we, the humble producers and consumers of this planet, the ones who provide the taxes that bailout the mega-wealthy when their money-making ventures come off the rails, have no inkling off. Obviously there are people in this world that have so much money they just don’t know what to spend it on. And most of them acquire it by screwing lots of people…people like us!
Of course we don’t get to meet them because they live in exclusive areas and they mix with each other for fear they might be polluted by the roughness and ill-breeding of the middle and lower classes who don’t shop in ‘Luxury Fairs’ in Vienna but at Walmart and BigW in Hicksville. Then I suppose it’s good we salt of the earth types have someone to look up to, someone to envy, eh?
P.S. I wonder if you can get a furry seat for the bike with matching gloves made out of snow leopard skin? Surely an extra $20,000 would get you this trifle!
P.S. I wonder if you can get a furry seat for the bike with matching gloves made out of snow leopard skin? Surely an extra $20,000 would get you this trifle!
Ha Ha Ha! I love your comment David, and for sure the furry bicycle seat will meet the needs of the sensitive butt cheeks of our platinum blond supermodel snake wife !
I m sure you liked her description so much, you especially added the furry seat for her
Please make sure you tint the snow leopard fur to pink..
Thank you, on her behalf!
Ha Ha Ha
P.S. humor and immagination are the only ones that can save our mental sanity.. once we realized how ridiculous everything is, we may even become amused instead of disgusted..
It better this way.
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The funny thing is, Adina, that most billionaires would no more get on a bike and go riding than they would walk. Imagine them trying to clean the mud off it or even dog droppings.
Of course they might ride it around the ballroom of the castle!
Cheers.
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No gears? The seat looks terribly uncomfortable, as does the position of the handlebars.
Also, I have to ask where do you put your shopping and your lunch. In my opinion, any bike that does not have a large box on the back is totally impractical.
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Braithwa, people who own a bike like this don’t go shopping! They have servants to attend to such things. And they have their lunch delivered by helicopter.
Cheers.
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You know, I bet you could ‘Bedazzle’ a whole bike for a lot less.
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That made me smile
I rode my bicycle 49 out of 52 weeks last year…. jsut the snow stopped me when the city did not plow regualrly.
Hoping to do it again this year…. saved 5.50 a day doing it and got around faster.
Peace and Blessings
Lil Sparrow.
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Great to hear from you, Lil! Please call again and share with us your insights and experiences.
Cheers.
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You people have inspired me to get more serious and find a tandem bike so that I can take my son to school on a bike instead of the car. That is just the exercise we need!
I have been reflecting lately on the past, present and future. The Buddhists taught me that this breath in this moment is my guarantee that i am in the present moment. Nothing can be done about the breath already taken, nor the breath after next. (except reflection and dreams) There is only the now. The only chance of a good future is to have a good now… Possibly unrelated, but I always appreciated this quote by Jennifer Stone, spoken at the end of her KPFA radio show, “And if you can’t go easy, go as easy as you can.”
Speaking of present moment, my wireless router is about to get pulled so we can go out of town to Grandma’s house and have internet there. Have a great week everybody. Being it is Thanksgiving day tomorrow here in the U.S.of A., I will be giving thanks for all we have to be thankful for and pray to the powers that be in this Universe to steer our ship of dreams in a better direction and not end up like the Titanic.
Peace on Earth.
Grace
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