I don't have the business gene a shortcoming I have been aware of for most of my adult life. The pursuit of business acumen as a way of validating myself has never been part of my plan. I've always viewed work as a way to earn money for some other end, usually a journey and as the journeys dictated I quit work and took off someplace else.
I suppose being a wage slave gives one time to consider the accidental similarities between an early morning drive on the Overseas Highway (above) and a Landseer painting, from the Internet, of a Highland Loch (below), an act of contemplation that takes a little time.
I have noticed that running a business consumes inordinate amounts of a human being's time. Vacations are referred to in a rather humorless way as unknown luxuries to people of business, and they seem to have less interest in making money than in the way of life involved in making the money, though that apparent indifference may be a mask. 
The idle and uninformed speculation about what makes someone want to own a business was prompted by the news a couple of days ago that the Green Parrot bar has a new owner. That the new owner has been making noise in Key West for a few years should come as no surprise because for Pat Croce as for so many people with bars and restaurants in this town, one is rarely enough. He it is who retired from some lucrative sports injury business franchise of some sort, I believe and opened a rum oriented bar on Front Street with a museum which subsequently closed, dedicated to pirates. With the piratical focus moved to St Augustine one bar in Key West was not enough...
It seems the Green Parrot will not be going through any changes with a new majority share owner (for a sum discreetly not disclosed, though a sum everyone must be curious about. How much is two thirds of a frantically popular bar worth?) and in the newspaper article all involved were delighted with the deal, prompted by the recent death of one of the original owners. 
Of all the popular tourist bar hang outs the Green Parrot is probably my favorite, as it features music, an open air lack of windows and a funky ambiance that may or may not be "authentically Key West" (whatever that is). Be that as it may I don't really care who owns it or why but I am mildly interested that owning a bar is an aspiration for some. I don't hang out much in bars; I can't fathom dealing with all the issues they bring in their wake. I like my vacation time too much.
I suppose being a wage slave gives one time to consider the accidental similarities between an early morning drive on the Overseas Highway (above) and a Landseer painting, from the Internet, of a Highland Loch (below), an act of contemplation that takes a little time.I have noticed that running a business consumes inordinate amounts of a human being's time. Vacations are referred to in a rather humorless way as unknown luxuries to people of business, and they seem to have less interest in making money than in the way of life involved in making the money, though that apparent indifference may be a mask. The idle and uninformed speculation about what makes someone want to own a business was prompted by the news a couple of days ago that the Green Parrot bar has a new owner. That the new owner has been making noise in Key West for a few years should come as no surprise because for Pat Croce as for so many people with bars and restaurants in this town, one is rarely enough. He it is who retired from some lucrative sports injury business franchise of some sort, I believe and opened a rum oriented bar on Front Street with a museum which subsequently closed, dedicated to pirates. With the piratical focus moved to St Augustine one bar in Key West was not enough...
It seems the Green Parrot will not be going through any changes with a new majority share owner (for a sum discreetly not disclosed, though a sum everyone must be curious about. How much is two thirds of a frantically popular bar worth?) and in the newspaper article all involved were delighted with the deal, prompted by the recent death of one of the original owners. Of all the popular tourist bar hang outs the Green Parrot is probably my favorite, as it features music, an open air lack of windows and a funky ambiance that may or may not be "authentically Key West" (whatever that is). Be that as it may I don't really care who owns it or why but I am mildly interested that owning a bar is an aspiration for some. I don't hang out much in bars; I can't fathom dealing with all the issues they bring in their wake. I like my vacation time too much.
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