We got away with it. Pulled it off. It was like we were Bonnie and Clyde
robbing a bank. We made off with not thousands, but trillions. And hehe, to
this day they never caught us.
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DEAR BONNIE, I LOVE YOU. CLYDE |
Those of you who remember my book “King of the Condo,”
will recall I like to take a humorous approach to life in a Florida condo.
That satiric book enabled me to fire back at all the residents who had
tormented me when I was their beleaguered President as Trump is today. I had
dared to push through an assessment to pay for upgrading the lobby and other
improvements. Well, I’m still concocting levity behind the humor counter
like in one of my previous blogs: https://maddenmischief.com/2020/03/20/sometimes-laughter-helps-to-relieve-the-tension/
These days we live in an oceanfront condo near the building we own in
downtown Boca where my PR firm, TransMedia Group, is headquartered. During
this crisis, we’re all working remotely, and I had to close our office in
Rome, Italy. Yes, these are crazy coronavirus times we’re living in, or
hiding out from, that’s producing fresh crops of condo commandoes on
steroids and making renegades of people like me occasionally sneaking out on
a deserted beach in defiance of the law.
Despite all the fears, tension and claustrophobia of being quarantined in
our apartments, I still see traces of humor lurking in the lobby, elevators,
hallways and common areas of our condo. Sometimes when I get off the
elevator and see one of the masked cleaning people pointing a vacuum cleaner
rod, I hold up my hands like I’m under arrest. It gets a muffled chuckle.
Today in front of each elevator, there’s a box of tissues and signs
exhorting you to use a tissue to cover your finger when pressing your floor
button. The other day, my wife Rita and I got on an elevator and there was a
man in it who promised not to breathe until we reached the lobby. It was a
joke, but I found myself holding my breath for eight floors. We’re all sort
of looking at each other, wondering, worrying, trying to judge how healthy
someone is, and we dare not cough or it could start a stampede.
Today we don’t leave our apartment without our masks and rubber gloves on.
The picture below is Rita and I kissing with our masks on. I suppose you
could say we’re masking our gallows humor.
Who really knows who’s next to test positive. Also, many of you may not have
heard I remarried after losing my beloved Angela to breast cancer last year.
I was sleepless in Boca for months until I met Rita after some adventures
with Internet dating, which I tell all about in my latest book “Love Boat
78” available on Amazon. And where did I meet my Brazilian wife? Where else?
Duffy’s! Since the pandemic, the Board of Directors at our condo has been
taking measures to keep our buildings safe, as it believes, and I couldn’t
agree more, it’s prudent to take extraordinary measures to limit the number
of visitors to our building and to dramatically increase the cleaning cycle
in the common areas. Oh man, are we clean. Residents who were sitting in
beach chairs six feet apart now can’t even go on the beach. The jacuzzi’s
closed. The gym is shut down. No one’s allowed in the pool. Everyone’s
masked. And some of us just can’t help ourselves. Sometimes we become Bonnie
and Clyde.