Oh that was wonderful!!
I can't remember ever pulling off a coup like that!!!
No! WAit! YES I CAN!!!
Dan was clerking for a high powered law firm in Dallas his second year in law school, and I flew out to join him for two weeks (since I was still paying the bills at home). We were invited to the MAJOR PARTNER"S, the one whose name is FIRST in the firm name and that is really TOP) beautiful home for dinner and for several of the attorneys to meet me and check Dan out some more. we were both a little nervous-- especially at all the maids and this incredible house-- my memory is of dark wood and antiques. We went first to the elegant formal living room for drinks and a chilled soup and Mr. H said to me, "Well, my dear, I hope this music isn't too old for you." (his little attempt at humor, I guess)
And I listened a moment and said, "Oh, no! Mozart's Third Violin Concerto in G is one of my favorite works."
He called Dan aside later and said to him, "Your wife is a real asset."
Those are great moments. PArticularly because I just got lucky that I DID know what was being played. Most of the time I haven't a clue.
And lest you think being labeled an asset is a trivial thing for a young student competing for a place in a top law firm, let me tell you that one summer, it being the job of associate wives to take the recruit wives to lunch etc. while their husbands interview at the firm, there was a wife named MERCY who was blackballed by all of us. She was awful. I took her to lunch and you KNOW I try hard to like everyone. But she was the kind who said things like, "This city is so ugly." "We're interviewing with other really important firms." "I am an RN and I won't have time to do the sort of things you nonworking wives do."
Yeah- right, Mercy- don't call us.
God, I just shudder to think I was part of all that once. |
