This will give you a head ache, or I need another beer. Probably both..

AP via Yahoo ^ | July 1, 2002

[tall_tex]

A couple of years ago my beloved wife came home and proudly announced that whe just bought a bunch of World Com stock based on a "tip" that she got from a friend at a luncheon. I reminded her that a tip "is an amount of money based on the amount of the bill at a resteraunt, while keeping in mind the level of service received". She did not speak to me for two days. She loved her World Com stock. She coveted it and watched the monthly statements from our Broker and encouraging me to keep the faith her friend could not be wrong. Finally today World Com got its fair share of notoriety. It traded more shares today than any other stock in history, it also dropped from 90 cents or so to .07.

[olivia3boys]

Just don't be too hard on your wife even though you were right in the end. A good marriage is worth more than money, right?

[Quilla]

I'm afraid it's 7 cents per share.

[budwiesest]

Sorry, can't help, I don't buy stock, I buy beer.(The price for which never seem to go down.) The market must be fixed.

BTW, these are the Roaring 20's to any dyslexic.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Do some research QUICK RESEARCH on medicles and roll it over into something worthwhile

[Mo1]

Hold. You can always get the stock certificates and use to paper your bathroom. Will be a great conversation piece.

ROFLMBO ... Oh you are mean .. that will surely push the wifey over the edge ..

[mdittmar]

She loved her World Com stock

That's the problem,my ex father inlaw was a bigwig with Sambos restaurants,remember them,he loved that company,and stuck with them all the way down.Lost everything.

Never fall in love with a company.

[swampfox98]

Hey, I bought GE stock when it was $65.00, and it went down to $20.00 when Jack Welch's wife found out about his girlfriend. Thanks to this romance stuff, I have lost over $30,000.00. Life ain't fair. And they're railing after Martha Stewart. Chicken feed, in my opinion. (I've held on hoping for an upswing.) I don't think you should, though.

[per loin]

proudly announced that whe just bought

Your use of the feminized variant of "we" indicates that you will have to ask her whether to buy or sell. Let us know what she decides.

[Sungirl]

So is it your turn for the silent treatment?

[tall_tex]

Did some quick math, based on todays increase in the price of postage, 500 shares of wcom @.07 equals $35.00. If I could get some of you guys to loan me a couple of bucks, I could buy a roll of first class stamps. Plus to sell even at my X discount broker it would cost me $40.00. Does that mean I would have to pay them $5.00 to sell my stock in the 2nd largest Telcom company in the world, and I just walk away? See why I have a head ache, and why I am going to have another beer. Do you guys think I could do better selling my wife of 39 years, hardly used.. Trust me, she has her share of Headaches, does not drink beer, of course the latter saves me money. Tom

[tall_tex]

What scares me MR. R, is that this is only one, she may have enough to paper the "Whole Bathroom", and we have a big bathroom.. Thanks for responding to my post, my first one by the way, nice to be in the company of "Execs", and thanks for not double billing my Amex.. Tom

[tall_tex]

I do not think it would push her over the edge, it just might want her to suck up. O'' I meant make up.

[tall_tex]

You and I both should buy stock in "BEER". When times are good beer sales are great, everbody is celibrating, when times are bad sales are good, everybody crying in their beer. Shushhhhhh do not tell anybody the price will go up on the beer companies stock. Tomorrow you and I buy before our fellow FRers. Is that a great tip or what?

[tall_tex]

Sure did ask, she said she was going to another luncheon tormorrow and would let me know. I need another beer. Tom

[Mo1]

And you are bad .. LOL

[balrog666]

hold on to it, class action lawsuit is quite possible.

Yeah! You can watch the lawyers get paid with the last of the company's money!

[tall_tex]

I am thinking about cutting her off.. But again.... Maybe I won't.

[xJones]

I have to ask, just how much is a "bunch"? Did she mortgage your house or something? If not, join the rest of us that have put savings in the stock market and have been badly burned in the last couple of years.

[tall_tex]

Your next question will be, When did you stop beating your wife. HUMMmmmmmmmmm, let me think.

[tall_tex]

Please see post #30, 500 was a bunch. Thanks Tom