Show I I II I II I II I IET PEEVE I I A A LONG study stu y of the situation has convinced me that the busi business bus bus- i mess iness world is inhabited by a class of gentle if prudent prevaricators Only the undertaker will tell you just how terrible business really is and he has to be honest since the whole town knows it each time he gets a customer I A businessman like a general generalI I In fn the field doesn't care to have havethe havethe the competition aware of the fact I when things are in m a bad way Its It's a matter of morale I It doesn't bother me too much this business of a merchant telling me that everybody else is spending I plenty of money or buying a particular parI particular par par- product I never spend I money unless I have it and have never purchased a single item merely because the Joneses next door came in with it in their shopping shopping shop shop- ping bag I 1 can forgive this minor prevarication When a n guy says business is is good maybe he means m ans its it's better than it was I cant can't argue with that The fellows that really get my goat and they are the most prolific pro pro- prevaricators are fishing camp operators In all my years of indulgence hi m the piscatorial pastime pastime pastime pas pas- time I never yet rented a boat from an operator who didn't say that fishing was wonderful the day before and everyone on the lake brought in the limit A va variation of this pitch is that some guy just left the boat dock before you arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived with the record catch for the season This is mighty bad hearing that you are just an hour or so late Yet you fish in the hot sun all day without a nibble go home borne sad and disgusted and then o out t of pure come back two days later to try it again |