The Man Who Wanted To Impress, Page 23

The clown women decided to stop with the video's and take Lauren and his lady friend on a wild ride in the limo. She opened the curtains on the windows and started the car and asked the driver to sit in the passenger seat and let her drive in her clown suit was near impossible but, she wanted to drive so she drove and that was that.

She started driving at a fast speed and she knew that Lauren did not like riding in cars that were driven excessively fast. The scenery was going by so fast it was all a blur and Lauren could not make out where he was in the city or where he was going. He did get one piece of information from the clown lady. She said they were going to the outskirts of the city to a rural area.

To Lauren that ment only one thing. They were going to the old parker mansion. It was built by Bud parker in the 1850's. But parker was a rich billionaire who made his fortuned in park benches.

But was born in 1810 and by the 1840's was the richest man in computer city. Which was not saying much because he was the only rich man in computer city. The only person with over 100,000 dollars that is. Bud had met his wife on a cruise in the pacific in 1840 she did not know who he was and was surprised he was one of the richest men in the country if not the world. When she found out she assured him that she was not interested in him just because he had money. Her name was Georgina and she was from a impoverished background and marrying a rich man was a shock because now she never had to worry about money again. She and Bud had many of the same interests. The liked to sail, had an interest in hot air balloons, liked to vacation on islands in the pacific, they liked to build models of famous land marks out of cards. The would glue the playing cards together so their models would stay together permanently. The made some great models. And there greatest hobby was building miniature volcano's that the would make erupt on a miniature island they had built in the middle of the lake on Buds property. It was a rather large lake that Bud had specially constructed to hold the island. He also took his boat on the lake for a little sailing.

After there deaths in a hot air balloon accident in the 1880's after they were old and grey the parker mansion was given to the computer city historic society for safe keeping as Bud wanted it to stand as a monument to his wealth and power and he also wanted everyone to remember his greatness. The historic society had built a small hotel on the property for people who wanted to experience the property first had and also to raise money to support the care of the mansion and the keeping of the large grounds that had to be mown and the flowers had to be planted and cared for and there were repairs on the house that had to be made so the hotel was the perfect solution.