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Briar Lee

Lifer
Sep 4, 2021
5,637
15,845
Humansville Missouri
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.:)
 
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Briar Lee

Lifer
Sep 4, 2021
5,637
15,845
Humansville Missouri
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.
 
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JOHN72

Lifer
Sep 12, 2020
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If I were 4 hours late, I would tell you that how is it possible for me to be 4 hours late, when I have never been 4 hours late. And I would apologize for being 4 hours late, and giving you a hard time, for being 4 hours late. And I would call the state agency for persons late arrivals, 4 hours late, to solve the problem of why I was 4 hours late.
 
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Richmond B. Funkenhouser

Plebeian Supertaster
Dec 6, 2019
5,501
24,892
Dixieland
If I were 4 hours late, I would tell you that how is it possible for me to be 4 hours late, when I have never been 4 hours late. And I would apologize for being 4 hours late, and giving you a hard time, for being 4 hours late. And I would call the state agency for persons late arrivals, 4 hours late, to solve the problem of why I was 4 hours late.

Good man.
 
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JOHN72

Lifer
Sep 12, 2020
6,114
59,795
52
Spain - Europe
I have a friend, who is always late when we have a date. Half an hour later I call him, and I ask him where the fuck are you? And he always says the same phrase, an hour later, he says, I'm coming to the tower, and after another while, he tells me, I'm going to the tower. It's a tall building half a kilometer from my building. I detest unjustified unpunctuality.
 
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