It Is To Laugh

For years now, the St. Petersburg Times has run a column called "House Values". This column carries the photos of recently sold houses, a brief description of the main features, the address, asking price and selling price. It's a very popular column!

House Values is usually one column wide and a full page deep in the Neighborhood Times tabloid. The info is printed over a light gray background to make it stand out from the rest of the page. It normally carries information on three or four recent sales.

Perhaps reflecting the drop in sales caused by the housing correction, January 23rd's House Values column could only report on two sales. In fact, the bottom third of the space reserved for reporting house values was blank -- nothing there but that gray background screen. The blank part of the space just kinda stood out like a sore thumb, saying "sorry folks, there just aren't enough sales to file a full report this week."

I'd laugh about it, if I wasn't too busy crying.

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