My Corolla and the ludicrous USTA.

By Javier Palenque

A few weeks ago a friend from NY texted me asking if I was planning to go anytime soon to the North East? I said not really and left it at that. Then a few days later I got an email from some operator for the Laver Cup promoting the event in Boston. I then asked the kids if they wanted to see Boston in September and get to see some tennis. My youngest said, yes if I get to see Cambridge, my oldest said sure if I can see MIT. So I asked my secretary to get me 4 tickets, 3 for us and one for my friend from NY, we could enjoy talking tennis and watching a few matches, I particularly like Bjorn Borg and would not mind watching him closely coach the European team.

After a while, my secretary tells me to give her a credit card, I hand her the card and as she is about to leave my office I say, how much was it? she says $29,000.00 I thought I heard $2,900.00 and asked again did you say $2,900.00 or 29,000.00? She said its $29,000.00 I said wait a minute I can not afford that are you sure? Yes, she said look: