. B. Nowhere Man

ome time ago Baron Von Lodge was the head of a small country near Switzerland known as Lilliland.

The Baron was telling his fiancée, Lady Angela of Alpine Castle, a story about a man with the nickname of “B. B.” B. B. stood for Brian Beecher, a lucky man who inherited from his departed uncle a lovely house and a monthly allowance. But there was one catch to this arrangement. B. B. must agree to live in the house permanently and not ever move away. He must sleep in the house every night or else his uncle’s estate would reclaim the house and monthly allowance, leaving B. B. with nothing. B. B. agreed to the arrangement for, after all, he had nowhere to go.

But B. B. soon got bored and decided to have a hobby. First he tried stamp collecting and that was fine for a while, but that, too, got boring. Next he tried coin collecting and that kept his interest for as long as the stamp collection. B. B. needed to try another hobby.

Next he tried butterfly collecting, but felt sorry for the pretty dead butterflies and quickly abandoned that hobby too.

Finally, B. B. decided to become a philosopher and seek the essence of life. Personal fulfillment and happiness were his new objectives.

He began to realize that personal health was important and that was no problem. Money and wealth were next and he had everything that he wanted, thanks to his late uncle’s generosity.

B. B. soon realized that he was a very lonely man, going nowhere. Companionship was the next objective in his search for personal fulfillment.

B. B. decided he needed a companion and that was going to be a wife, someone he could share his life with.

He thought about a fine single woman whom he had met several times in church and began to take a stronger interest in developing a relationship with her. Fortunately, she felt the same way.

Soon they became engaged and eventually married.

The marriage worked out well and his wife accepted the arrangement with B. B. and his uncle’s estate conditions.

The Baron concluded the story by telling Lady Angela that the story concluded with a very happy ending.