She’s a lovely woman. She’s beautiful. We’re madly in love. But I’m breaking up with her over that mole on her arm.

That’s the coolest sports car I’ve ever seen. It’s fast, handles like a dream and has every feature I ever wanted. But the floor mat has a small stain on it. I’ll pass.

Yes, we love the house. It’s perfect for us and it’s very affordable for us. But we can’t buy it because the doorknob is dusty.

Those are silly statements, aren’t they? It’s ridiculous to think that something that seems so “right” would be dropped like a hot potato over something so miniscule.

Yet, ironically, the City of Natchez thinks little things like that are deal-breakers.

That’s the only reason we can see that three aldermen — and ultimately the mayor on a tiebreaker — voted to offer a $15,000 rebate on building permits on large economic development projects.

Unfortunately aldermen Joyce Arceneaux-Mathis, Theodore “Bubber” West and Jake Middleton supported the rebate measure.

The ordinance stipulated that the projects must be more than $40 million in scope and employ at least 100 people.

Is $15,000 going to break a $40 million deal? We don’t think so.

But $15,000 is half of a new police car, pays for 3,750 gallons of gas for city vehicles or perhaps helps fund in-car cameras for our police cruisers or dozens of other needs the city has.

Yet, our city leaders think we don’t need the money. Perhaps it’s time to start considering reducing aldermen salaries, too. If they’re going to give away city money, the least they could do is give a little back.