Funny thing….when I first met him he told me he was shocked how dirty NYC was!!! He never complained about any of the work he did. He gets up at about 4 AM to go in every day and only has Sunday off. He was telling me that the boss is pretty nice but the son is an asshole…pretty typical.
Ugh what a suddenly shitty day. I actually kind of like dealing with smart assholes, but dumb assholes stress me out if I’m in a situation where I have to keep dealing with them rather than just writing them off as irrelevant. I’m dealing with a dumb asshole lawyer from another firm who thinks he has to be 10x more aggressive because I’m at a big fancy firm…. the result is just a pointlessly aggressive dumb asshole who gets nothing accomplished for his client and makes everyone’s life miserable. I’ll totally win in the end, you always do with these poeple, but it just makes you feel dirty.
Thanks for sharing. I wonder if the wife is diggin’ it here. A lot of Ghanaians I’ve met seem pretty pissed off that this place isn’t the promised land. Also, I think there’s disappointment because the hospitality that they show to foreigners isn’t close to being reciprocated here.
LIke any true catholic culture, it was never discussed. We did sleep in the same room in the same bed at his home in Ixcamilpa. He told his new wife about his inclinations and about me. I guess the desire to come to NYC was weighed against that info. They now have two lovely kids, the second whose one year birthday is on Thanksgiving.
“a dumb asshole lawyer”
Is there any other kind????
And not to sound sexist – but Lech – imagine the chip if that dude was a woman. Yikes.
haha – you two just wrote about the same kind of annoying person.
New York Times story just posted saying brownstones have somehow triumphed over condos:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/realestate/21cov.html?hp
Funny thing….when I first met him he told me he was shocked how dirty NYC was!!! He never complained about any of the work he did. He gets up at about 4 AM to go in every day and only has Sunday off. He was telling me that the boss is pretty nice but the son is an asshole…pretty typical.
Ugh what a suddenly shitty day. I actually kind of like dealing with smart assholes, but dumb assholes stress me out if I’m in a situation where I have to keep dealing with them rather than just writing them off as irrelevant. I’m dealing with a dumb asshole lawyer from another firm who thinks he has to be 10x more aggressive because I’m at a big fancy firm…. the result is just a pointlessly aggressive dumb asshole who gets nothing accomplished for his client and makes everyone’s life miserable. I’ll totally win in the end, you always do with these poeple, but it just makes you feel dirty.
Thanks for sharing. I wonder if the wife is diggin’ it here. A lot of Ghanaians I’ve met seem pretty pissed off that this place isn’t the promised land. Also, I think there’s disappointment because the hospitality that they show to foreigners isn’t close to being reciprocated here.
LIke any true catholic culture, it was never discussed. We did sleep in the same room in the same bed at his home in Ixcamilpa. He told his new wife about his inclinations and about me. I guess the desire to come to NYC was weighed against that info. They now have two lovely kids, the second whose one year birthday is on Thanksgiving.
http://www.arthurwerner.com
They call a couple of weeks ahead & give a quote, which has always been fairly close.