One Chance

As declared in the City: 

The three most important areas of contemporary life are health, wealth, and gossip.

You generally only have one chance to “say it right.”

The kind of discomfort most people are prepared to endure is in recounting their everyday irritations.

Recently heard a wild-eyed bricklayer, who had been attending night classes at a City college, pronounce, “The aim of culture seems clear enough to me:  To keep regular guys from enjoying themselves.”

One guy told his son to quit belly aching about every little thing, “Hey, just look at life as a ‘cheap ticket.’”

J.