Opus 2024-219: In or Out of the Tank

I keep hearing about how bad the economy is.  I agree with that assessment.  I’m not sure that it strikes everyone though.  My wife was giving me a song and dance about how she went out to dinner with her daughter and the grandkids and the restaurant was almost empty.  She took this as a reflection of how bad things are.

Take that in the context of her trip starting next week.  She staying in hotels and she will probably still pay $150 a night.  None of this $50 stuff I use.  She is going to the Branson area and visiting Silver Dollar City.  I heard nothing about admission but I did pick up she paid for tickets to a dinner show featuring Cowboys and all kinds of exciting things for the grandkids and shared that she shelled out $700 for tickets.  It doesn’t sound like an economy doing poorly to me.

Some of the guys who are on my zoom were talking about visiting Branson and going to a live theater presentation, I can’t remember the name.  They talked about how many people there were in a house with a panorama stage.  Live elephants were mentioned.  I am guessing that tickets in the nosebleed section, if they have such a section, would be at least $100 apiece.  I got the impression that my friends were sitting front and center.  I shudder to think of how much that cost.  And yet all of these people will talk about how the economy is in the tank.

Again I agree.  I shop for groceries.  I buy gas.  I know what’s going on and yet there is some thing that we’re not admitting.  Either we are all going deeper in the hole because we refuse to be stewards, we are richer than we will admit or we’re totally confused.

Take your pick.

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