Where did Kristi Noem get the $3000 that vanished with her purse?

[eppur_se_muova]

14. The handbag was worth "only" $4400 -- It's her gold Rolex that's "worth" $60K. Oh, and $600 for her wallet.

Here, "worth" means there's always some idiot somewhere who's willing to pay that much for a friggin' watch -- just because it's supposedly a status symbol, and they have a bottomless pit of need to impress other people (presumably as shallow as themselves) with their willingness to spend money to fluff up their brand.

To me, it's a symbol of "a fool and his/her money are soon parted". I've been wearing $15 Casio digital watches for most of my adult life. I wore out the buttons on the first one, so they started to stick -- but other than that, IT STILL WORKED. I've lost one, and it was a minor inconvenience -- got a replacement at Big Lots a day or two later -- if someone stole it, they risked jail time over a *used* trifle. Later found the lost one, & inherited one from my dad. I'll probably never run out of watches in my lifetime. And it didn't cost me $60K to get there.

The rich people who impress me are the ones who are smart enough to live so modestly that you'd never guess they were rich -- then leave huge bequests to charity when they die. Not, THAT'S impressive.


(BTW, I like your idea. Reminds of an old Soviet-era joke, where the driver who leaves the warehouses every day with a truck apparently containing only random scraps of waste materials finally confesses to the flummoxed security guard that he's stealing trucks.)