A Rhetorical Question #27

a rhetorical question
The last time anyone asked me the question "Where will you be in five years" I was living in Palm Beach Gardens Florida with my brother. The question was posed by my brother live-in girlfriend, which sounds funny because she is the Print Ad Executive for Cingular. She is in control, be it maybe a small part, over all the paper ads in newspapers and magazines for the country, so it sounds odd referring to her as a live-in girlfriend and not an executive. My brother worked his way from an installer (then their were car phones) in Evansville, to being over Henderson, Evansville, and Owensboro. Then Cingular gave him Louisville, Lexington, and Cincinnati after a few years there he moved to the National headquarters in Atlanta. He was just an office guy then and had no territory to cover, then I guess, in about 2002 they gave him all the stores in Florida. After a few more years he turned in his resignation because he was going to start a website that sells cell phones, satellite radios and electronics and that would have been a conflict of interest. In 2005, that would have been his second Christmas season, I went down to help manage his website. That initialed all the web chats, phone calls, taking credit card numbers, orders and keeping the web page up and current. The website is Skybox-usa.com, ask me and I will give you a coupon code.

When she asked me that question my brother told her that it was an inappropriate question and is usually is used as a rhetorical question and not a genuine question. Like a genie out of the bottle, I had no other choice then to answer her. After a moment I came up with the perfect response, one that was relevant to my situation (living in my brothers house at Christmas time) I said "In five years it would be nice if the two of you were staying in my spare bedroom at Christmas time".

As for this time, my response will be longer and less to the point. In five years I will still not have gotten my masters but what I most of all hope to have gotten, by then, is the woman of my dreams. Some lady that does not sing along to public radio or fall for all the trends and fads. What do I want out of a woman? Well I can say I do want a woman whom has room to grow as a woman and does not think she knows everything. I would also be nice to find a girl that is my age but has been in a coma since she was like twelve. Most woman my age have "lived" far to much for their own good (or my own good) and I would like to think that there are still a few that have "lived" relatively little. My problem is that I have known some really good women and I look for their qualities in other woman, but that always leaves me wanting more out of them then they have or have to offer. I cannot put up with much dumbness and cannot tolerate any lousiness.

As for ten years from now all I want is to be building my dream house. I see all these two and three hundred thousand dollar houses going up and what do they spent on their landscaping a hundred dollars, two hundred dollars. They plant one Bradford pear, one dogwood, and some reflectors at the end of the drive and call it done. This really erks me. As for the yard of my dreams it would be at least ten acres. My mother has almost thirteen and we keep it all mowed and there are gardens everywhere. She has got to have three thousand flowering plants and tree in eighty verities. I have grown so accustom this way of life, the country way of life.

Another thing with all the new houses I see being built is that there is never enough windows. They will have some in the front but then you look at the sides there are like one window one side and two on the other. I will pay for windows and if I cannot afford them I will have the blueprints tweaked to allow for the addition of extra windows in the future. One thing that I hate is how people build houses that are exact right angles to the road, even if it put their house directly in front of their neighbors’ house. Come on, kick your house a little sideways, I dare you. It would be way cool to build a house with a flat roof. That would give you so much more room to entertain or garden or just sit out on the roof and lounge. I like how Spanish houses, in Spain or Mexico, have a courtyard in the middle of a house and a large double door leading in to the courtyard. I find it cool how some houses are not one solid whole house. There are different wings, one wing that has the kitchen, a living room, and a dining room. Another wing would have a few bedrooms, a parlor, and some common space and then a separate master bedroom wing. It would be so cool to make as much noise as you want and not worry about can the kids hear or did the in-laws hear that. All I want out of life is a nice yard, a nicer house, the nicest lady on the face of the earth and a bathroom you could live in. I would sell my soul for a really nice bathroom