Tonight, Elie and I went to dinner with a business acquaintance (the one whose writing project has caused me to neglect you my readers a bit lately). Midway through my second raspberry iced tea, he mentioned that he'd just taken a bath in the stock market, having lost $150,000 in the past two months. He tossed this tidbit out in much the same manner as I might mention that I had lost a sock in the dryer, and even joked about pulling all his investments and hiding the cash in his mattress until the markets turn around. By contrast, he let out a string of obscenities to put a longshoreman to shame when he noticed a pinky-nail sized speck of marinara sauce on his white shirt. You never know what some people will find important.
Boy, somebody ought to tell him Zout and Arm and Hammer laundry detergent (powder so it doesn't freeze :) ) will take just about anything out! It isn't worth embarrassing the sailors over! Ann O.
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