I’m taking a break today from the usual Wedding topics
because something interesting struck me this morning. I can recall reading several (if not many)
articles back in January of February of 2012, telling us that some “experts”
were predicting that gas prices would reach $5.00 per gallon by July 4, 2012. Of course everything you read on the internet
is true and I even think this bit of news was broadcast on the local news.
Being the sucker that I am for listening to experts, I
expected a sharp drop in the stock market.
After all, another expert told me that when gas prices rise, the economy
goes into the proverbial crapper. So I
moved all of my 401K money from a really aggressive account into the plain old
interest bearing account. Luckily in the
last stock market crash, my money was sitting nicely collecting 1% interest a
year, while many of my colleagues were taking a beating.
So driving into the office this morning, I see a sign for
gas that was reading $3.25 per gallon. I
think the gas station must have had the numbers reversed because the “experts”
were not predicting this, and we are less than a week away from July 4, 2012. It could also possibly be that the area of
the country that I live in might also be having a Blue Light Special on gas or
something. Granted it is not $1.00 a
gallon, but it is certainly much better than $5.00 a gallon.
But geez, could the “experts” really be wrong??? Who are these clowns that gave the
prediction? I sure hope that they are
fired from their jobs by now for being completely incompetent. Maybe it was a scare tactic or a marketing
ploy. Maybe their crystal ball
broke.
Maybe it is time for me to realize that not everything the
expert says (especially a prediction) is fact.
In this case, I may have been a little better off going into the city to
a fortune teller and getting their take on the situation. I don’t know what the answer is, but I do
know it is time to listen to the so called experts, a little less.
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