RORY SALAZAR | Finance | Contact
A local renaissance man who is highly proficient at dozens of expensive hobbies has today told the Advocate that sailing catamarans is his new thing.
Matthias Polack (36) explained this while tacking his brand new, top of the line MiniCat catamaran hard to starboard across the choppy waters of Lake Betoota.
“Never sailed before in my life,” he yelled to the Advocate over wind gusts of up to 17 knots. “This bastard cost me a good $6k! Plus all the gear to go with it.” The man grinned wildly as he leaned out over the side of the craft, his back appearing to touch
the water. “I thought my new E-Bike was expensive!”
Gripping onto the craft for dear life, our reporter asked the man what he did for a crust given he appeared to spend large amounts of currency without a care.
“I had a shitty office job but I quit the other day when the RBA finally paused rate hikes until 2024,” he shouted. “Too many hobbies to focus on,” the jack of all trades said in the little bit of French he had recently learnt.
The Advocate thought that Polack quitting work like this was a risky decision in view of it being based on facts that were categorically incorrect in parts. The RBA had indeed paused rates but had in no way promised to keep them paused until 2024.
The RBA would never make such an outrageous claim like that.
To be so blasé about spending, our team though Polack must come from money.
However the boat captain shook his head and said he never had much money nor did he care for it.
In fact, he said he was heavily indebted to the tune of $31,000 of high interest credit card debt. Oh, plus the car loan. But the worst thing was the repayments on his $750,000 mortgage were now too high for him to service.
But Polack said he felt comfortable enough to go out and spend big now that the RBA had promised to really pause rate hikes until 2024 this time.
While we wanted to correct the well-rounded man on his misinterpretation of RBA’s rate pause, we figured it better to just let the loose unit enjoy his new toy for as long as he could before the repo men came to claim it along with the rest of his worldly possessions.
“Woohoo, I’m the king of the world!” he howled at the horizon.
