Four Hours Late

[Briar Lee]

In the business I worked in, unless the late comer was super rainmaker, there was a production related or family emergency, or was dead, being that kind of tardy would be a ticket to the unemployment office. With stage costs running at anywhere from $25,000 to $75,000 an hour there is little to no forgiveness.

You weren’t selling roosters or how well your office presented to a person in legal trouble.

My production costs were exactly the same whether a client walked in and paid my front desk legal assistant money or not.

 

[LeafErikson]

But yeah it's like a man taught me years ago in the car business... Sometimes you just gotta kiss a mudfish on the ass.

Just pucker those lips up and smooch it.

I’ve had MANY tunas identify as a mudfish just to try and get ass smoochies from me.

 

[Briar Lee]

I did some figuring.

41 years times 2,000 hours a year = 82,000 hours. I did a lot of waiting around in my office.

I lost my temper and got angry one time only at another lawyer who was late to visit my office, and it was after regular hours.

Her client had abandoned my client with two little children for some drunk she met at a bar.

And I let her borrow my fax machine and paid the assistant to operate it, for her own personal business, as my law office was the only one with a fax machine in our county.

And then she said your client should stop spreading those lies you are feeding him about how much of a worthless no account whore their children’s mother is.

Nobody can help who they love.

I hear own mother was married and divorced three times after your father died.

Xxxx

I’m ashamed to admit I said words to her I still regret but I didn’t charge her for using my fax machine.

And not long afterwards she quit private practice and went to work for the state and we became friends, and she referred me lots and lots of business.

She had her own troubles she kept bottled up inside.