Lockup Doc

I know an elderly psychiatrist who used to do some small-time farming. I was always impressed with how many things he could buy without his wife objecting. Many of the items he purchased could have been considered, depending on one’s viewpoint, “tools” or “toys” (power tools, trucks, old tractors, etc.). There seemed to be two reasons he was able to do so. First, he had a great strategy. Anytime he bought something for himself, he either bought the same thing for his wife or bought her something equivalent. If he bought a Grand Cherokee, she got one, too. It must have been expensive, but it probably helped him to avoid years of marital discord and ultimately Dr. Phil telling him to “get real.” The second reason he got away with buying so much stuff was, as he told me, because “the tool always creates the job.” He loved all of these toys, and he had a special knack for always proving how useful each of them was because he inevitably would find the “need” that the tool would fulfill.

Is the social media craze similar to my psychiatrist friend’s farm tools?

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