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AMBASSADRESS: FINANCIAL MELTDOWN

"Tell me," I said, choosing Bankers on the front porch
my words with care, glued to their blackbenies,
"given that we are moving journalists in the hall
into a period of recession, taking notes and whispe-
would this perhaps be a ring into their mobiles,
good time to renew my politicians in the library
wardrobe whilst we can making promises behind
still afford to?" every pillar, secretaries in
the dining room re-
You would have thought I shuffling the name cards to
had proposed cavorting accoininodate last-minute
naked down the streets of defections or additions.
Geneva. Himself looking harassed
and wishing they would all
For some reason he studies go home. I picked up an
the ceiling in moments of umbrella and braved the
crisis such as these. weather.
Seeking assistance from a
higher being, presumably. Came back late into the
It never works for me, but afternoon feeling much
then I wasn't brought up by better, and was treated to a
the Jesuits and thus do not happened. I'm the one who ce this month. synopsis of the disastrous
have a direct line. The only does the accounts in this economic situation with
revelations I get from which he had been
house, so how did that You know those days when
gazing upwards centre incriminating piece of the clouds are so low you involved for the best part
around the density of the paper find its way to his In feel you could touch them of the day.
cobwebs. Retail therapy,
tray? Must be a new if you stretched just that
on the other hand, never secretary. I wondered little bit more? When what "So," he summed up
fails to uplift. But like all fleetingly whether I could starts off as a hint of drizz- wearily, "given the
men, he won't even give do a Palin on her. There le tums into a steady mis- situation, do you think that

that a passing was a particularly nasty erable downpour? When to you could perhaps avoid
consideration. bill from the garage this add insult to injury the spending quite so tmich
money for a while?"
month, I recalled. The wind gets up and blows
"Your wardrobe," he said, direct result of my seeking whatever was left of your
looking pointedly at my to widen our parking area newly washed hair into a Absolutely, I said, nodding
early morning Beagle- to the detriment of the car's flattened mangey cl'iarity understandingly. Not a
walking garb, "could wing mirrors. shop cushion? When even problem.
indeed do with a little the dog takes a desultory

improvement, but I hardly "Restoration and sniff at a couple of trees He looked suspicious.

think this is the time to be Maintenance," I said and heads for home and
indulging in further brightly, whisking the warinth as fast as its paws "Is that a new handbag?"
excesses." He shuffled offending papers off his and owner can manage?
some papers on his desk desk before he caught sight No, I said, Of course not.
and I noticed he had been of the amount I had Except that when you get I've had it for years.
reading the latest bank personally spent at the there you find there is yet
statement. Damn, that beauty salon for another Official Lucky he didn't notice the
should never have restoration and maintenan- Happening taking place. shoes.

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