The most expensive cutting board EVER!!!

So A and I now own the most expensive cutting board ever!!!! Ever you ask? Yup, ever. $180USD ever!!!

A couple of weeks ago prior to the buying of the Middle America Car (see above post), A got it into his head that we needed a cutting board. This isn't just any cuttingboard. Nope, this is from a restaurant supply store. Amongst other things A is a kitchenware snob. He once said that he considered a deal to be a $65USD sauce pan. Yup, that's my man. So he trotted off to one restaurant supply store and discovered they were more into selling big hunks of cheese rather than kitchenware. Now, I'm into cheese as much as the next guy but not 10lbs blocks of it in my refrigerator for the greater part of 2007. So after two weeks of sharing one vehicle between us (it became a daily ritual of exchanging spit and vehicle), he was feeling a little housebound so he decided he was going to drive me to work and keep the truck during the day. He said the night before that he was going to regret it...little did he know how true that statement would be!!!

So he dropped me off at work after swearing for the greater part of an hour on the morning commute, saying how "this is why I work nights" and demi-yells of "long pedal to the right, people." I, on the other hand, just put my chair back, closed my eyes and enjoyed the morning drive in. I'd been doing the commute for two weeks already so I had little sympathy. He dropped me off at work.

At 8: 45am I get the call. He had gone to the store, walked in, bought the cutting board, and exited to find some black guy standing near his truck and then making a run for it. He got in and starting driving. Damn!! The 3rd door window was cracked. Apparently in downtown Detroit the car thieves wander around with bricks in their jackets so they can break windows and steal the cars. Another minute or two later and A wouldn't have been an owner of his truck. This is why we are now the not-so-proud owners of the most expensive cutting board ever!!!

Now the statistic that I've heard is that the average family income in Detroit is about $19,000USD (about $22800). Now I don't know what they consider the average family to be made up of but I cannot imagine trying to make it with a family of 4 on $19 000USD/year. Someone told me not to believe what I see out there on the streets with respect to people's vehicles and that often the vehicle on is driving has absolutely nothing to do with the person inside because so many people have family discounts or receive discounts from their friends on their vehicles that it just doesn't match with the reality. One person said that they were intrigued by a vehicle they had seen and when they tried to take a picture of it the driver took evasive action because he'd stolen the prototype car from his employer!!! I'm going on a course in April all about Detroit so I'm sure I'll be full of even more facts and figures by then. Be afraid!!! Be very afraid!!!