The Pensioner

By Pensioner

Los hombres

No more work for me; just time to close all those lovely newly painted shutters, lock the door and head off down town for a cafe con leche and a tarte de something or other. Because there are so few tourists about, the locals seem more visible, like this couple of gents enjoying a late morning glass of wine.
After that I had a brief chat with the owner of a new venture - a gin distillery has opened selling delightful 50cl bottles of overpriced hooch.
I do hope their business model isn’t over-reliant on exports to the US following Trump’s imposition of tariffs. 
"Now we’re going to charge the European Union. They're very tough. Very, very tough traders. You know, you think of the European Union, very friendly. They rip us off. It's so sad to see. It's so pathetic...”
Meanwhile his cheerleader, Fox News, removed the stock ticker that they’ve been showing for 28 years for the first time because they didn’t want their viewers to see the truth of what was happening to the stock market in real time. 

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