When friend Sherri and I were lunching at The Leaning Pear recently, we discovered something unusual that we held in common. She and her family live on Catalina Island, and she mentioned that she and her DH have a special nickname for the super-fast, super-expensive cigarette boats that are popular with certain kinds of men. They call them P.E.D.s (penile extension devices). I had to laugh, because I have a similar belief regarding men who build McMansions, and drive Corvettes, Ferraris, and such. I call them Weenie-Waggers.
Just a few days after this meeting of the minds, I was having lunch in Mima's, and overheard two local guys discussing an out-of-towner who recently built a huge house on the tippy-top of a hill. Come to find out, it's 15,000 square feet. No, not fifteen hundred. Fifteen THOUSAND. And only two people will be living in it. Poor fella. He must have a heck of a lot to compensate for!
P.S. Don't let that picture of our place fool you. It's a trompe l'oeil photo. The house is only one room deep, but the garage behind it makes it look much larger. Basically, we live in just three rooms upstairs, then downstairs, in what is more or less a walk-out basement, we have a guest room, storage, and John's bat cave. No wagging here!
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I've always been soooo intrigued by the psychology of waggers. Are they self-aware? Is it flaunting wealth? What is the female equivalent? If I won the lottery, would I want a Mansion on a Hill? Is the need to have out-sized anythings generated by internal or external pressures? Both? And finally, would a spiritual seeker own a cigarette boat?
P.S. Wonder what the water usage would be in a 15K square foot abode? Hmmmm. I do hope a water collection system is installed. BTW, is your tank full? It was so great to see the pics of the creek with running water!
Good questions! I'm guessing the utilities and the taxes on a place like that would each be more than the average persons house payment. It'll be a booger to keep cool in summer, at the top of that hill with no trees to shade it.
And yes, our tank is quite full!
Did you hear that the guy who possibly made the MOST money in the financial industry (he invented hostile takeovers among other things) just died at the age of 61???? A lot of good all that wealth did. Now I think the gov't (that's us, as a matter of fact) should make his estate give a chunk of that money back to the TARP fund!
Probably not too many are missing him, either, which is the saddest thing of all.
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