The Meriwether Monument
Today’s photo is of the Meriwether Monument in Calhoun Park near downtown North Augusta that Roadside America has labeled – Monument to a White Supremacy Martyr
Just like the Santa Fe failed proposal prank back in January, I never did get everything together to prank my Miata Club peeps tonight. I was meeting with three couples to have pizza this evening and thought it would be fun to riff on the Alan Alda movie The Four Seasons and the new Netflix series based on that movie. If you are familiar with either the movie or TV show, maybe you can intuit what I was hoping to do. If not, follow along. The plot of The Four Seasons is based on three middle-aged couples who are good friends that vacation together 4 times a year. In the very first season, one of the husbands decides he wants a divorce from his wife. So the next season when they vacation together, the husband shows up with a much younger woman, and the ex-wife is nowhere to be found.
Because I’m nearly 70 years old, a much younger woman would be 40-45, and I don’t have a real good friend that has a female child that I knew and could borrow for an hour for the prank. I suppose I could have signed up on a dating app, but I’m not really dating, and I’m in a whole different zip code. I might have tried a university theater major, but would any one of them have bought the story? I’m betting alarm bells would be ringing loudly with that pitch. Today at lunch I went out with my Edward Jones rep, who Donna and I kept when we moved west, and her two employees. And truth be told, either one of them would have been perfect for the job and would have had good shock value. They were both probably in their high twenties or low thirties; one was African American, and the other was blonde with several tattoos. But, while friends with the Edward Jones advisor, she doesn’t know me that well to approve the plan. Plus, once again, I’ve only spoken a few times to either of these two women; I couldn’t, or really wouldn’t, ask.
Maybe if I do move back this way, I’ll start planning earlier…