December 23, 2008

Any Other Business?

When call marketers badger me, I cannot help but tell them how much I enjoyed “Death of a Salesman” while pondering aloud how easy it must be for them to empathize with poor Willy Loman's lack of self-fulfillment. Unfortunately, most of them have never ventured very far from their script.

For some Armageddon is the end of the world, for my mother it is discarded rice potentially clogging the drain. Apparently, it is far more significant a challenge then the rest of us will ever imagine.