A long overdue purchase
I’m older now, and able to buy some of the little things that would have made sense a long time ago. Case in point: I now own a drum stick bag. Took me just short of four decades to get around to it.
Back in high school, we had this big bad portable cupboard. Each time we moved from the music room to wherever we were performing, it required two people to lift the beast. And, naturally, we stored all of our portable stuff inside… drum sticks, mainly. No need to carry them around. The cupboard was still in use when I visited the high school with my oldest son, many years later. Well built.
When I made it to university, there was still no need to carry drum sticks from place to place. Heck, we rarely left the comfort of the practice room in the basement of PWC. And that’s the reason that I continued to store drum sticks in dresser drawers, at home. Or on the couch, depending on my mood.
Today, I purchased a wonderful nylon case, filled with six pairs of 5A sticks. Total bill, twenty dollars. See what I mean about waiting to buy the inexpensive stuff.
This evening, we watched Brewster’s Millions, an old Richard Pryor movie where the premise is that the protagonist must spend $30 million in 30 days, without accumulating assets. In today’s world, that sum would be more like $50 million. And even with pallets of cash, the little stuff doesn’t get bought. The lesson here is that waiting for the little stuff is just part of a normal lifestyle.
For my records, snow is falling, this evening.
