Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 25, 2020

I think you missed your moment, my dear boy.

I don’t see the harm in it. Looks as if you’ll still have plenty of ammunition.

I really do take a bath on Sunday and Wednesday nights. Also, I buy several of the exact same shirts, so it only looks like I’m wearing the same one all week.

It’s the other 32 concerns that are going to sink you.

I thought he was checking a CVS pharmacy receipt.

That interview was water cooler fodder for the next 7 months.

Well, that’ll put my mind at ease. Go ahead, fire away..

Ummmm, we’ve been here for over an hour, I don’t THINK so!

“No; not that one… that one’s probably right… Oh; I’ve completely forgotten about that one, but it had been fun… No; I didn’t inhale… Yes; that’s one of them right there.”

At this point i doubt that it will help.

whahoppened nailed it.

The second line of the paper is fairly clearly “MENTS!” The first line, however, is illegible. I was thinking “CONCERN”, “DISAGREE”, “BELITTLE”, “IMPRISON”, “DEBASE”, “EMBARRASS”, “DISCONTENT”, “ADMONISH”, “AGGRIEVE”, “DENOUNCE”, “CHASTISE”, “DISEMPLOY”, “MISJUDGE”, “NONACHIEVE”, etc.

At my annual reviews with the Senior Partner, I would lay out the numbers reflecting how many millions I’d made him and what I expected as compensation. His reply was always the same, “Your math must be wrong.”

There are a lot, of rules.. on Ballard Street. Concerns will not be tolerated.

Government workers -what are you gonna do?

My only concern is why wasn’t he offered a cup of coffee when he sat down?