Tonight, we are celebrating. And a feast is at hand. A 2009 bottle of Milder Jalapeno Tabasco has just been opened, and is now breathing on the table. Stale broken taco shells have been re-crisped in the oven, and a finely grated cheddar cheese has been broiled delicately across the top, setting off its natural blond highlights. Refried beans have been, well, refried, back to its natural toothpaste consistency, making a fine dip as any french pate'.
What are we celebrating? Zero. That's right, we (the Jalapeno Tabasco and I) are celebrating the number zero for the first time in 14 years. Of course, when I was 18, I didn't really appreciate zero as much as I do now--maybe because I had zero girlfriends but far from zero face pimples. With a stroke of a button a few minutes ago, I paid back 36,847 US dollars in college loans, in just over 3 years since college graduation. Over half of that was in the last year, where I squeezed myself down to a 1200 SGD (850 USD) monthly budget (not easy to do in Singapore), and sent everything else over to the US Federal government. From there the newspapers tell me it went to bailing out bankers, the ones that gave me the money in the first place.
Now if only we can teach these bankers how to enjoy a nice meal of stale tacos and refried beans, they wouldn't need there million dollar bonuses after all.
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4 comments:
Classic, Terry, classic.
Impressed but reminded of my 200K floating in some banks computer with my name attached as a debt, that likely, will not be paid for another 20 years.
Bravo!
you got to line someones pockets
:)
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