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.
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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.