I Must Be Scrooge in Naples!!!

Posted by V.K. [Mel] Melhado P.A. on Friday, December 22nd, 2006 at 11:28am.

It is Friday, the day before Christmas Eve day, and I’m trying to get some real estate work done, but it seems that no one else is working.Try as I might making phone calls, going to the office, networking with people, they just aren’t there. No one is returning phone calls…they all seem to have just shut down getting ready to celebrate Christmas. Gosh…and here I am trying to put together a last minute real estate deal…anything. Scrooge I guess that I totally don’t get it. It’s kind of like my philosophy about the stores putting up Christmas ornaments and trees prior to Thanksgiving. In my day, (now I’m sounding like my parents,) we never saw Christmas trees for sale or decorations in the stores until well after Thanksgiving. It seems that we had to fully digest all that turkey first. Now it seems as though it’s getting earlier and earlier, so much so that I say why not leave them up all year. It sure would make it a lot easier on all those people who have to put them up and take them down. If they left them up all year round, all they would have to do is dust them off, once in a while. It sure would make things a lot simpler, no unpacking and packing. No pulling it all out of storage and putting it back. (And isn’t it funny, no matter how hard we try, it never fits and goes back the same way we took it out.) It must be me! I guess that I need to roll with the punches, take the time off like everyone else and enjoy life, although somehow I still feel that need to get that last minute call in, deal done or something that makes me feel as if I’m accomplishing something. Wow…now that I think about it, maybe I am Scrooge!!!