Our Town.

Last week my wife and our little girls headed to Bricktown to take in a Redhawks game.
It was a beautiful 2-weeks-before-the-official-start-of-summer kind of an evening in OKC.

After paying $5 for parking and $18 for tickets we were in the gate.
We met up with my wife's parents and siblings along with a friend or two to enjoy the game.
It was the end of a busy Tuesday for us and we were ready for a bite to eat.
Hotdogs and drinks for the three us ran a whopping $26.

And about the 5th inning it was time for some additional ball park treats.
Peanut for me, ice-cream for our 4 year old Harley, and a pretzel for my mother in-law totalled $11.

As I sit here and type, I am just now realizing I stiffed the dip-n-dots guy the 50cents I assured him I would bring right back.

So a little quick math and the total for our night's activities...$60.

I love living in OKC. This is a wonderful time for our town. Opportunity seems to abound.

But as my family made our way off of the elevator in the parking garage that I paid $5 to park in for 3 hours or so (just a reminder that 1 billion people live on less than $1 a day & 3 billion people, that's half the world's population live on less than $2 a day)...there stood two of my fellow OKC citizens rummaging through a trash barrell looking for what appeared to be dinner from someone's discarded to-go box.

We live in a city of opportunity, no doubt about it.
The question is opportunity for what?

I hope our collective answer somehow involves two of our finest citizens.