Newps
March 17th 08, 08:45 PM
The old rent vs buy decision.....
His acts are not without an aviation parallel: Eliot's stupid harlot
> trick is what happens when one fails to properly make the rent/buy
> decision.
>
> Renting at $4500/hour might've looked good on paper compared to what he
> could get at home---his $151K Governor salary divided by the middle-age
> married average of 52 encounters/year & 15 mins/encounter works out to
> $11K+/hour. Yeah, owning means he would probably have to look at a
bit of
> hangar rash, the gearbox was probably leaking and in need of an
> overhaul, the cylinders might've been crying for some GAMIjection, but
> at least if he kept it "in the hangar", so to speak, he would've also
> kept his wife and job.
>
> Look where he ended up instead, Tomahawk dreams on a Beechcraft budget.
His acts are not without an aviation parallel: Eliot's stupid harlot
> trick is what happens when one fails to properly make the rent/buy
> decision.
>
> Renting at $4500/hour might've looked good on paper compared to what he
> could get at home---his $151K Governor salary divided by the middle-age
> married average of 52 encounters/year & 15 mins/encounter works out to
> $11K+/hour. Yeah, owning means he would probably have to look at a
bit of
> hangar rash, the gearbox was probably leaking and in need of an
> overhaul, the cylinders might've been crying for some GAMIjection, but
> at least if he kept it "in the hangar", so to speak, he would've also
> kept his wife and job.
>
> Look where he ended up instead, Tomahawk dreams on a Beechcraft budget.