SPORTING EVENT
I was not proud of having to file for bankruptcy, but people in town were reading about it like it was some type of sporting event. It was scary. Greenberg bankruptcy was the headline in the local paper, and it was the lead story on the local cable news as well and the local television and radio outlets. I was suddenly more famous than I wanted to be. It was really a problem. I had hoped to keep it quiet, but the media had dug the story out. Or rather, the story was fed to them by someone who wanted to do me further harm. I never wanted to file at all, but things just got beyond my control. I had no choice. If I didn’t file I would lose everything. Thirty years of hard work would go down the drain. It probably will anyway. Then there was Sarah, the news anchor at the television station. She kept badgering me to go on TV and become famous. When I reminded her that I was already famous, and that is why my bankruptcy filing was a story, she didn’t seem to get it. She literally was camping at my doorstep. The station had pulled an RV in front of my place and she was spending 24 hours a day there, waiting for me to come out. I stayed in most of the time, and was able to sneak out the cellar door once. But then they staked that door out, too.