Spent the afternoon with the lawyer. That will have cost some big bucks. Carlton, you can just stop spinning around in your morgue drawer at Georgetown. She is going to be the person who has my Power of Attorney and will be my medical representative, the person who will say “Pull the plug!”. She is also retweaking my will. She is a nice lady. Her father lives at the asylum that I am going to visit tomorrow. Her law partner’s parents live at the other asylum I am considering.
I took the lawyer a pile of old papers from Carlton. Papers that seemed to me ready for the shredder. She agreed that I didn’t need to keep his marriage certificate to his first wife, his divorce decree, payoff of a house he owned… that sort of stuff.
In the pile, the lawyer found a letter written to Carlton’s mother by Representative Harold D. Cooley. Never heard of Harold Cooley. According to Wikipedia:
Harold Dunbar Cooley (July 26, 1897 – January 15, 1974) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented the Fourth Congressional district of North Carolina from 1934 to 1966. Cooley remains the longest-serving Chairman in the history of the United States House Committee on Agriculture. He was nearly defeated in 1964 by Republican James Carson Gardner and lost to Gardner in a stunning 13-point upset in 1966.
So, I guess I am not going to be able to sell the letter and envelope for NetJet share or even enough for a tall coffee at Starbucks.
When I got home – the ZipCar card arrived. I now have: Capital BikeShare, Uber and ZipCar. All I need is a NetJet Share!
But wait: There is more. Ted Cruz is running for president. Let the games begin. Ted – just because you don’t believe science doesn’t make it fiction.