I grew up on I Love Lucy<\/i>. We used to have the reruns on at dinner time for years. I know practically every episode by heart. It goes beyond my being able to say whether I Love Lucy was a good show or a bad show; it’s just saturated in my bones.<\/p>\n
One of the basic lessons I learned from I Love Lucy <\/i>was: Never do business with friends.<\/b><\/i> It always ends badly. Mix in the tolerance, desire to please, desire to forego, and resentments that ensue thereof, of friendship with the basics of business and monetary transactions, and you’re just asking for trouble — and for an end of the friendship.<\/p>\n
So whenever Lucy and Ricky would go into business with Fred and Ethel (raising chickens, owning a diner, stuff like that), eventually the two couples would be fighting like cats and dogs, both feeling aggrieved and offended and exploited.<\/p>\n
I pooh-pooh the effects of violence on TV on the folks who watch it, but I have an inevitable I Love Lucy<\/i> reaction whenever the prospect of doing business with a friend comes up. Will I end up feeling taken or exploited? Will my friend? Will our friendship endure that inevitable disaster?<\/p>\n
Anyway, that’s the long way around saying that I’m extraordinarily pleased by how relatively smoothly — and utterly lacking in rancor or the sense of exploitation (at least on my part) — my sizeable business transaction (selling the Saturn) went with Doyce. When all was said and done, both sides of the business seem to have gotten what they wanted in a pretty timely and positive fashion.<\/p>\n
Maybe I Love Lucy <\/i>wasn’t right after all. Though I don’t think we’ll be buying a diner with the Testerfolk any time soon …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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