One more thing......

Justin and I were discussing things the other day, after Suzanne and I failed to come up with the answer. Attribute it to age or having had too much happen since then, but neither she nor I could come up with what started the crash in 2008. I knew Justin had the answer since he is a student of this and has a fresher memory. The long and short was consumer confidence wavering (ah, yes, I remember now.....) prior to the elections, and the dominoes started to fall. He told me about people we know in common who wisely cashed in their investments the day of, or the day prior to, the lowest closing of the markets in a decade. Yikes!

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As we talked, I reminded Justin how glad I was for not cashing out back in 2006 after he graduated from high school. My thought was to cash out, move to Greece, and live happily ever after, rather than face being an empty-nester. Well, none of that came to be, since he was accepted to UNF, a local college and was not going off to some far corner of the USA for school. And he lived at home with his mama at first, too, where I became his college roommate! Fast forward to the present, where Justin is now living in student suites and I am here, not in Greece, which is bankrupt!

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Justin at first said, "That would not really affect you...." but trailed off, realizing just how miserable life would be without government services. No ports, no electricity (if it's publicly run), devalued currency, no services, no police or fire protection, no airports....I need the airport so that my downstairs neighbor, Jeff, who flies for FedEx, could bring me my summer sausage every couple weeks! What else would I eat???? When Twila and I were talking about it yesterday at lunch, she said, "You would have had to learn to fish and eat it raw!". Yech! Thank you, Lord, for guiding me properly in this decision-making!!!