Run the Risk
“He favored the pressed collars of Brooks Brothers to the casual dress most of his teachers wore. Whatever high-minded tone he may have contemplated using with me vanished the moment I walked into his office and he saw my bruised face and the blood on my shirt collar. Nothing kills a party like blood.He stood dumbfounded for a moment like a passing motorist staring at a wreck.“Have you had an accident?” he asked.“Yes,” I said. “I was hit with a door.”He seemed to have trouble getting his mind ar...ound what I assumed was a first for a parent conference.“A Craftsman door,” I said, trying to sharpen his understanding.He sat silently for a moment, then seemed to have a breakthrough.“I love Green and Green,” he said, as if we were on a walking tour of Pasadena’s most famous Arts and Crafts houses and he was trying to impress me with his knowledge of these two architects. The absurdity of his words struck him a second later and he added, “If you would like to do this another time . . .”“This is the only time I have,”MoreLess
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