A bagel can buy you a lot of good will. I found that out on Tuesday when I asked Lisa to do me a favor by calling the state attorney"s office. She not only did it immediately, she did it with a smile. Who knew that"s all it would take?
After Lisa set it up, I e-mailed Becca to tell her the appointment was Thursday morning and to ask her to come in a half-hour early to prepare. She e-mailed me right back to confirm. She also thanked me for offering to attend Joe"s funeral, which would be Saturday morning, but asked me not to go. It would be hard enough on Joe"s parents that she would be there; it would be that much worse if her divorce attorney were there.
I hadn"t thought it through, but she was right; of course I shouldn"t be there. It"s not like I wanted to go in the first place (nobod
