— I’ve just got a job as a salesman for the manufacturer of the Number One brand of the world’s major appliances.
— I am almost suitably impressed.
— Doors will probably open for me.
— What exactly is a major appliance?
— I’m surprised you have to ask.
— I’m surprised you are surprised.
— Can I get back to you when I’ve finished my training?
— If needs must.
— I am promised a future that’s an expansive vista of unimaginable opportunity for the imaginative and persuasive mountebank.
— You’ve abandoned the idea of sex work, then?
— Wash your mouth out!
Martin Stannard
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