Serendipity, Yah, Yah, Yah

OK, it'll be a stretch connecting this little nugget to Cortes Island, but it is still worth sharing. My niece Mac bought a book at a garage sale, Harry Potter and the Horrible Trip to the Orthopedist or something. I'm not up on those romance novels.  Anyway, inside this masterpiece of adolescent manipulation and meal ticket for cute little British actors was a bookmark. This old piece of pasteboard, used by I would think more than one person in more than one book, was much more than any bookmark you and I might use. It was a ticket to the Ed Sullivan Show on that Sunday evening when the Beatles - yes, those Beatles - made their final appearance on the program in 1965. It appears that it was their last live performance on North American TV, too. Mac's dad Russ, ever vigilant to cash in on someone else's stupidity (ask him about the piano), did the research and found that it is worth between $3000 and $5000. There are but 4 of these babies known to exist. I tried to convince him that after all Lili and I have done for him he should sell it and put the money in our BC Ferries account.* It seems he did not think I was serious. No, instead they will waste it on a university education fund or floors for their house or some other useless crap. I suppose if you live in a house with no floors you have to do something about that.
I think I'll out them to J.K. Rowling who of course will immediately claim it as hers.

* I made that part up so I could create, albeit tenuous at best, a link to the theme of this blog.