Cupcake’s caper leads to front-row tickets
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Avid Tennessean readers may have already noticed Cupcake’s accomplishment because it was published in Friday’s edition of their paper. When I say that, I want it to be clear the editors of Business Pulse in no way endorse reading The Tennessean.
However, those who do read that newspaper may have noticed a column called “Brad About You” which appears on page 3-A. Brad spends a great deal of time talking about entertainment stars, who they are dating, what they ate for dinner, and the last time they burped. I find this information boring, but Cupcake just loooves it and for some reason I find that cute.
Anyway, Brad had a contest where he urged readers to submit their craziest college caper. And the person with the most off-the-wall story would win front-row Motley Cr?e tickets.
As you can probably surmise by now, Cupcake’s crazy college stunt won first place in the contest. That’s great on one hand because we won two free concert tickets. It’s also given me a golden opportunity to poke fun at Cupcake.
If David Letterman were to do one of his famous Top 10 lists and the subject was “Signs You Were Too Crazy In College” his No. 1 answer could very well be, “Your craziest college caper wins you front-row tickets to a Motley Cr?e concert.”
Fortunately, I have been a calming influence on Cupcake and I’m proud to say she is a very responsible, very dedicated wife and mother of two. The moral of this story is this: It’s a good thing she met me.
And before I bring you much more important business matters, I have to mention the story of Wisconsin resident Alberta Rose, who experienced the real-life fear of having to report her 14-year-old daughter missing. It turned out to be an extremely serious situation as her daughter was eventually found in Texas after being lured there by a 37-year-old man she met on the Internet.
While the Internet brings all new horrors to parents, Alberta Rose wasn’t overly concerned with her daughter’s disappearance. In a move which will win her no Mother of the Year Award, she left for a 12-day vacation with her daughter still missing. She told police she would have her cell phone on so they could call if her daughter were to turn up. And she wonders why Mother’s Day isn’t a big deal around her house.
As for this week’s Business Pulse, I’ve decided to do something a little different. With so much concern about employment, especially manufacturing jobs, I decided to focus the majority of this column on Yorozu (formerly Calsonic), which is now Warren County’s top employer.