#1 Shocked! I am shocked...that it wasn't a small boy.
Otherwise I am reminded of a story written by I believe P.J. O'Rourke, right in the final days of the Soviet Union, where, sitting in a bar in an international hotel, he watched half-prostitutes, half-KGB agents, go around asking to illegally exchange currency or other services.
He noted two large Texas businessmen, sitting at a table and enjoying their drinks. When approached by a woman, they would look off and loudly say, "I kin hear them jail doors clangin'!" |