touring the Lebron James mansion

touring the Lebron James mansion

fiction
Edward w Pritchard


My customers are as happy as two Japanese girls being pulled up Howard Street Hill in Akron to see the Elizabeth Street Apartments where Lebron James lived as a boy.

 I pull the rickshaw and I trot along up and down rain or shine; it's a good living for me. No I have never met Lebron but I know a lot of the places in Akron Ohio he hung out as a boy and everyday I take tourists by rickshaw to see St. Vincent High school where Lebron and bro's won the State Championship. Sometimes for double fare I take two tourists riding snug in the cab of my rickshaw clear out to Bath Ohio to see the Lebron James mansion.

A taxi permit is expensive to obtain, who can afford it? A bicycle rickshaw is banned by the Akron city counsel, too degrading, too obviously promoting class distinctions in America.

A loophole is a pedestrian pulled rickshaw taxi, pedestrian being me trotting about the Hills of North Akron straining to pull two pretty Japanese girls or a Fat retired Swiss banker to see the monuments of Lebron James' boyhood.

First station on the Lebron tour is at the Goodyear plant over in East Akron; it's background; Black's came North from Alabama or Arkansas who sometimes found work building tires or more likely sweeping up rubber dust. Station two is the John Brown connection at the Simon Perkins Home, slavery, the civil War the long march to economic freedom. Then the Elizabeth Street apartments, low income people still live there.

Well I could go on and on writing about Lebron James who I admire for his charity work but I have to get back to pulling my rickshaw so Here's what I wrote before about touring Lebron's mansion, at least visiting Lebron's Home in Bath, Ohio in my imagination, as I haven't been invited out there just yet:

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Lebron James; all rich and famous celebrities know each other you know

Lebron James; all rich and famous celebrities know each other you know

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

All rich and famous celebrities know each other you know. That's why it shouldn't surprise to hear that when I visited the sprawling mansion of Lebron James, only a dozen miles West of the crumbling home on Hickory street where Lebron grew up , two celebrities besides Lebron were visiting his house. Two house guests were quartered at Lebron's mansion in Bath, Ohio.

Lebron had allowed Hugh Hefner and a hologram of deceased Elvis Presley extended visit at his mansion. Since LeBron was living in Miami on business for the season he allowed Hugh Hefner to practice his lifestyle in the Akron, Ohio area and LeBron allowed the avatar hologram of the young Elvis Presley to roam the mansion and patronize his fine kitchens.

Hugh Hefner is a creature of habit. Classic Movie night Tuesday, nostalgia Wednesday, three-some colonial dress Thursday lunch hour and every morning business records review in his favorite robe are the routines that motivate Hugh to face each morning anew. Don't talk in movies, don't call the girls bunnies or gals, don't whistle on the premises and don't bring back one of the house vehicles low on gas after you have driven to the grocery store to bring back supplies. Hugh likes to patronize the West Point market over in Fairlawn. Never walk into Hugh's bedroom without knocking first; it's shocking what you might find. One can only imagine.

Elvis jumps from activity to activity trying to find purpose in his life. He is not really alive but his hologram is interesting to be around and damn he is a nice looking young man. Elvis really doesn't break out in singing like in his road movies. He does like to talk about Vegas through. Don't mention Anne Margaret. Don't talk about personal things at all, like Elvis' unusual dietary habits.

I had an interesting conversation once with Elvis about his philosophy of charity compared with Lebron's. I guess what I like most about Lebron James is that he is always helping the unfortunate. It makes me proud that we are both from Akron, Ohio. Akron's not a memorable or beautiful place but there are some good people from there, like myself and Lebron James.