As PVV rapidly approaches, one can not help but change their focus from a hard day of work or a hard day of play. No, matter your state in life, you next step is the same! One must find their Kiawah clothes, dust off the moth balls, and pack them painstakingly for their long journey to paradise! Since this is PVV, by definition a practice run for the big show, it also forces one to make some agonizing decisions. If one actually works for living, these decisions will be nebulous, just one more thing to decide. WELLLL 5 for those on a fixed income whose biggest decision is whether to use peanut butter or almond butter on their toast every lucky morning, getting ready for PVV is a very traumatic event!
6 remembers the day when getting ready for PVV, was a matter of waiting for the 40–45-day mark, logging on to the laptop and buying a ticket, renting a car and finally forewarning “the man” 6 was taking a week off. For the next 40 days, life would just proceed as normal. But 5 days prior 6 would jump in to active mod and check the suitcase, which was a matter of adding the red/white and blue swim trunks, since PVV always falls on a federal holiday, and making certain there was adequate tooth paste and shaving cream from the preceding FFV. When we reach the 48-hour mark, it is time to make the first and only decision, Will TOTAL WINE have any REX, or will 6 have to make a decision on other types of wine? With any luck, TOTAL WINEwill have Rex in stock, and all 6 has to do is hit the order bottom. Life is really good! The next thing 6 knows, 6 is sitting in church with 4/7/8 and Joe Biden, preparing to make 6’s second decision. Do we stop by Sunny Brook Farms otherwise known as Rosebank Farms (well known for its “locally grown” fresh produce) after church, or do we go on Sunday morning? 6 could go on, but as one can appreciate, when one is working decisions are ostensibly simple, but now that one has a fixed income, life all of a sudden becomes subsequently considerably more convoluted. This is what life is like now!
Publish the Calander for the 2025 year, including the dates for PVV, making a leap of faith, the dates would not change from the past half century. WELLLL 6 not a good decision, text received, enlightening 6 that the official dates on the official calendar are incorrect. For someone who works for a living, no big deal, for things change all the time. But for someone who’s mental geniuses might not quite be what they used to be, this is a major conundrum. One would not think a simple date change would cause so much disturbance, well one would be incorrect let 6 enlighten, the less cognizant!
1) Rental car, reservations make: now have to cancel and re-order
2) Airline Reservations, the same as car, but in this case, lost my good seat, had to change not only the date, but also the time, last but not least cost twice as much, causing 6 to have to re-do his family budget for the next 3 months!
3) The plan this year was to retire 6’s celebrated beach attire. 6 appreciates all-you-all’s disappointment, but after 20 odd years, 6 was pondering trading it in on more age-appropriate attire. That purchase is now down the dunny, for 6’s SS check arrives later in the month, and there will not be any discretionary cash available prior to PVV.
4) Additional stress thinking about having to do our grocery shopping at Harris Teeder. Normally on PVV 6 can wait until the checker scans and bags all of our purchases. At that point start to hunt awkwardly for some greenbacks, count the exact amount, including the 10 cents (made up of one nickel and 5 pennies) drops it clumsily on the counter for the cashier to pick up and recount. Easy-peasy! Now, 6 is going to have to have the credit card in hand ready to swipe instantaneously, as the final item crosses the scanner. 6 can feel the stress mounting!
5) Drink at least 1 additional bottle of Rex per day, endeavoring to moderate the additional anxiety of items 1 thru 4!
As 6 sits here every day watching the beach CAM (when it is actually up), drinking that extra bottle of Rex, the frustration of wasting his time watching for new beach fashions just continues to mount. So, in the meantime, do not ask 6 to carry anything to the beach because all of 6’s pockets have holes worn in them, bring extra sunscreen because the hammer shirts no longer provide sun protection, and finally, for you Pitt alumni, don’t be ashamed because your coveted panther logo is distorted due to sweat stains. In other words, don’t be mortified to sit in 6 vicinities, as strangers are sauntering by dropping their loose change in 6’s empty tuna can. After all, 6 cannot think of a more applicable way of supplementing 6’s social securely check than becoming a beach panhandler! Best of all Paradise is full of rich old people, and it will all be tax free! Not to concern yourself, 6 has done due diligence and checked in the official KICA rules and regulations for the beach, and today they have not added panhandling to the list! One has to take every advantage that is offered until it has been taken away! With even moderate success at beach panhandling, 6 will be able to purchase the original hammer shirt, from MC himself! 6 sure hopes that no one minds the panhandling, but then again 6 did not change the date…. Banana Time!
Words of wisdom: Believe you can accomplish a skill, is being more than half the way there.
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