I am so in the wrong business, 1/3/08

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland has prepared for its evening of Hannah-monium.Miley Cyrus -- TV’s “Hannah Montana” -- brings her sold-out concert tour to Quicken Loans Arena, which says all 16,000 tickets for Thursday’s show are spoken for.

... Two mothers say they brought their daughters from Athens, Tex., because they could get tickets for the Cleveland show for $65 each. They say resellers wanted $1,500 for upper-level seats in Dallas.

What mistake did I make in my past to not be (a) a teen singing sensation (b) a concert promoter or (c) a bankruptcy lawyer? The third one has nothing to do with the other two, but I saw some of the legal bills during the Special Metals bankruptcy case, and I want at least one of my three kids to become a bankruptcy lawyer so they can support me in my old age.

But concert promoter or ticket scalper sounds pretty good, too.

P.S. If, when I was 13, if I had told my parents I wanted to see John Hartford in concert and the only show I could afford was in Texas, they would have told me, sure, let's go.

Sure they would. As my mother often said, some people have more money than they have sense.