Smiles Across The Miles

No, it's not a sequel to "Ferry Cross The Mersey", the mid 60s' top 10 hit by Gerry and the Pacemakers (though it might not be a bad idea)...

..it's something that has to do with the only real laugh I had all day.

I had texted my friends in Vegas to make sure they read the article about the city's economic woes in today's Wall Street Journal. One of my friends (Brian, who works at Morgan Stanley), replied that he had skimmed it but planned to read the rest when he got home.

In my message back, I told him that I saw Morgan Stanley's stock price was up about 75% and added "no doubt, largely due to you, my friend".

He replied that he was like a "human stimulus package" for the company.

So I offered him this piece of advice...

"I would suggest you confidently walk into your boss' office and DEMAND, not request, that you be pulled by rickshaw up and down Las Vegas Boulevard by lesser employees as demonstration of your worth to the company."


He laughed...then I laughed...mainly because it was kind of a twisted reference to a Seinfeld episode...

Probably not so funny to many of you, but, hey...that's all I've got! ;)