It's 9AM
I’m showing you the sticker but if you’re a stickler for details, check out that sky reflected in the tint. Grateful for this day and thebeauty around us.
I have thoughts on Spring Break
And thoughts on Leap Days
And plans for vans in multiple ways
I thought I would share with you today
But first the van.
I mentioned the “Baseball Adventure Vehicle” before.
I may not have mentioned that I would have preferred a Ford Expedition.
Or a Square Body long bed 150 from the 80’s.
But those did not pass muster.
Or permission.
As far as those things are important in a relationship.
Besides, it is roomy, and great on gas, and a good lesson in business.
We know a couple of car guys around town, and have played baseball with a few.
One of them was a coach who picked up 10 for a couple of tournaments.
All of the decision and buying and getting was behind the scenes, done via text and photos.
I wasn’t as involved because I’ve said before, I’m not a “car” guy, and though I have some preferences for my personal car, I’m just not wasting much brain space on it.
I just drive.
And pay.
Or pay.
To play.
But the coach was a big 10 fan.
And he did something special for him.
When Les told him it was a “Baseball Van” for road trips to 8 states over the summer, he said it would be perfect for them.
Then he did this:
Which is how he earned the upgrade in two years.
And a story to be shared at every BASEBALL TOURNEMENT in town (There are 8 more of those), plus shared across Socials AND shared with you.
Even though only ten of you who’ve reached out live in Arkansas, and the other 4690 who open this every day live across America and around the globe.
It just goes back to that saying; “They may not remember what you say, but they remember how you make them feel.”
Which brings me to Spring Break.
Florida is rolling up the welcome mat to Spring Breakers.
There’s an active campaign to make college kids feel bad about shenanigans on the sandy shores of the Sunshine State.
I remember a dearth of movies about searching for love or the twenty minute version of it with hot young youths chasing each other on one edge of the peninsula or the other.
Spring Break in Florida almost became a cliché, or maybe it did and I’m just too close to it to notice.
After all, I like sunshine and sand and oil covered bodies.
But Florida doesn’t want ‘em.
Now.
But they did in the past.
Wanted them and their money in droves.
It’s a classic case of careful what you wish for because the college kids came and spent and destroyed and drank and sexed all over the place.
The cost was too high, the ROI too low, so now Florida says Spring Break has got to go.
Except how do you say no once the horse is out of the barn?
And where would they go.
I’m considering a letter to the Mayor to dump truckloads of white sand on the shores of the lake in Regional Park in Pine Bluff and advertising as the next hot spring break vacation destination.
If Arkansas weather cooperated, it might work.
But we can do four seasons in one day, and I don’t think that would work with the bikini and speedo crowd.
Maybe we could do some sort of special Spring Break Festival once every four years and see how it goes.
The state expects two million extra visitors on the weekend of April 8 to catch “The Path of Totality” so that might be good practice to identify problems and work on solutions.
Cause a couple of thousand college kids frolicking on the beachfront lake shore in Pine Bluff Arkansas can be a blessing or a curse.
I wonder what they’ll say about it or how it would make them feel?
How do you feel about this?
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AND
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