Makes your eyes well up, doesn't it? I'm wiping away the tears as I write, I'm so touched. We are well into the recovery phase as the last vestiges of that economic slowdown fade away behind us.
I thank all of you on the east coast for braving those blizzards and driving out to our malls and power centers to shop. You are the real heroes. I didn't have the chance to become a hero like y'all, because my Elk Grovian mall sits unfinished:
I could have been a hero, too...but I wasn't given the chance. I don't have a mall to drive to, a mall to shop at, a mall to meet friends at, a mall to power walk through. I didn't have the same opportunities you all did, and I'm ashamed. I could have been a hero in some child's eyes, too, but instead, I sit here a broken, dejected man.
I get to sit here at home, by my lonesome, on a Sunday night because I don't have the Elk Grovian Promenade to drive to, to spend my weekend evening. I'm not gassing up my Pacer, not stimulating our economy by driving and buying tyres and motor oil because I'm not driving to our mall. What a waste! If only our city council had acted sooner and permitted the mall just 16 months earlier, man!, what a difference that would have made! Sure, the Elk Grove Hard Rock Cafe still might have abandoned the mall but we probably would still have had all sorts of other fantastic restaurants and retail emporiums remain.
But that's water under the bridge. I didn't get that chance to shop, yes, but even so I wouldn't have had to face driving through all those dangerous and life threatening blizzards to get there, so I wouldn't really have been a hero like those millions in the east.
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