so, whilst i was gone...

so, I was gone for a few days, and my youngest's class had lunch with this man:



his name is Manuel Maroun. I know none of you know who he is, but he owns the Ambassador Bridge. The Bridge connects Detroit and Windsor.
It accounts for 26% of the border crossings between the US and Canada. they charge 4 bucks a crossing for cars, and around $10 for trucks.
That's about $60,000,000 a year. Take out about 20 million for maintainance for the bridge and he makes forty million dollars a year. Every year.

It's his bridge.



did I mention that when he bought the bridge, he beat out Warren Buffet in a bidding war?

he was fascinating to listen to.

I once bought the Brooklyn Bridge from some guy on the street. Somehow it didn't turn out to be the windfall that I was hoping for but if you like I would be glad to have lunch with your youngest's class and discuss this brilliant transaction.

you gona buy? cuz he bought us all lunch.

The deal's off. I only offered figuring I'd get a free school lunch for my efforts.