Louisa: Another year begins
Jack: I need to start taking the first day off. That way I’d skip the anecdotes. Last year Kurt Goldberg spent an hour telling me how he’d entered his dog into all these contests, and the dog never won even though his granny was one of the judges. Turned out she kept voting for the wrong dog.
Louisa: Anecdotes can be fun if you like the person
Jack: Yeah, but how often does that happen?
Jack: I need to start taking the first day off. That way I’d skip the anecdotes. Last year Kurt Goldberg spent an hour telling me how he’d entered his dog into all these contests, and the dog never won even though his granny was one of the judges. Turned out she kept voting for the wrong dog.
Louisa: Anecdotes can be fun if you like the person
Jack: Yeah, but how often does that happen?
