for The Villages. As I had mentioned, my son and his family were here for a couple of days and had a good time as usual. My grandson Damian is celebrating his 17th birthday next week and is the son everyone would like to have. He plays Varsity sports, he gets great grades, he’s a natural snow boarder, plays golf but also plays the cello and enjoys being\u00a0involved in\u00a0the schools theatrical productions. \u00a0He saved enough money, and his parents matched him so he could buy a nice car, a Mini Cooper that scares me to death. My son says\u00a0he’s not sure\u00a0he would have made that\u00a0arrangement with him\u00a0if he had known\u00a0how much money he was going to save. He worked this past summer computer monitoring a large construction job and actually found mistakes that computer engineers had not found. Vanderbilt University is pursuing him to be a part of a summer Computer Engineering program, which he may do next summer. So there you have it and all around son, great future, proud parents and grandparents and\u00a0then we walk into the The Villages Golf Cart Store and he strolls around, the way only \u00a0a 17 year old can.\u00a0\u00a0He approaches his father…Dad, you know I could see myself living in the Villages and selling Golf Carts, I would love that and I could make a lot of money while playing pickleball and dragon boating.\u00a0 \u00a0When he \u00a0saw the blood drain from my son’s face\u00a0he started working on him by telling him if he did that it would save\u00a0my son\u00a0a lot of money.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My son was rightfully concerned as this is the Grandson that for Christmas wanted a Village back pack and when he got it\u00a0he used it so much he wanted another one (I sent him two), which he uses. It is the same Grandson that several years ago wanted me to change his airline ticket home from Wed. to Friday. He had a friend in The Villages that he had reconnected with and I thought it was to spend more time with Brian. I almost changed his ticket until I found out the reason was he wanted to go out to dinner with the New Jersey group on Thursday night. So, the Golf Cart idea was a real threat. However, the Mother of the son jumped in and pulled the Grandson aside and said Dames, you’re too young so \u00a0make this Plan B…experience life and then come and pursue your Village dream. \u00a0However, it really warms my heart to think he\u00a0finds that my life\u00a0\u00a0is AWESOME.\u00a0 That says a lot for\u00a0The Villages.\u00a0 It also is an indicator that\u00a0The Villages will be passed down from generation to generation and that’s awesome too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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