Thursday, May 17, 2007

Love is Blind

Joe Hardy and Kristin Georgi
Hardy is 84 years old and founded 84 Lumber, the third largest home improvement chain in America. It's a distant 3rd behind Lowe's and Home Depot, but Hardy is still a billionaire. I'm not sure about that figure because he didn't make Forbes list of 400 Richest Americans which encompassed all the billionaires. But for the purposes of this discussion we'll call Hardy a very rich man.

Kristin Georgi is 22 years old and used work in the salon at a Hardy family resort in Pennsylvania.

Hardy married his first wife in 1947, and stayed married for 50 years. When they divorced he jumped right on his next wife who was 26 at the time (a mere age gap of 48 years). Now he's 62 years older than his current wife.

Unlike all the other relationships featured in "Love is Blind," I can actually understand this one. Hardy says he wants to spend all his money before he dies and he wants to have a good time doing it. So he's buying as much Viagra as the law allows and banging the hottest chick who is willing.

Georgi wants Gucci shoes, and purses and a lifetime of happiness. For that, she's willing to endure this old fat guy for a few years until he croaks while she's riding him.

Or there is another possibility. Maybe they're really in love?

4 comments:

Brian said...

Is that Big Tom Callahan?

Anonymous said...

84 lumber is not a competitor of either Lowe's or HOme Depot as it serves the pro market. Also please note in Forbes that Joe's daughter Maggie is noted as a Billionare.

Paul said...

Since Home Depot and Lowe's also sell to contractors, 84 Lumber does compete with them, and vice versa.

The riches of Hardy's daughter are not relevant here because they are not included when describing Hardy as multi-millionaire (or erroneuosly, billionaire) plus his new bride will have no access to that money when he croaks.

Anonymous said...

I'm not saying she's a gold digger. But she ain't mess with no broke [African-American gentlemen]