Renaming your maids for the trophies
This fictional conversation was in my head earlier. Just thought I'd share.
'You ever get the idea that you're supposed to be doing something else with your life?'
'Amy, you're talking to someone who likes writing but went into psychology. I hate psychology.'
'No, you hate people. There's a difference. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that when I was little, my music teacher wanted to send me to music school because she said I had a lovely voice, but my mom wouldn't let her. To this day I feel like I'm never going to do that. I could have been a great singer.'
'And now you're doomed to be a successful lawyer. It could be worse, trust me. Besides, you'll be using that voice in the court room to help put bad men in prison.'
'I'll never see any singing awards with my name on them. Not if I'm just a lawyer...'
'And that's fine. You'll have enough money to train one of your maids to sing. Then, when she's really good, you can legally change her name to yours. You'll have enough lawyering money to do that. You can rename people when you're rich. Then you'll finally get those singing trophies with your name on them.'
(bed.)
And if that doesn't work, you can always just buy the damn trophies. Nobody's going to see if you actually won them anyway.
'You ever get the idea that you're supposed to be doing something else with your life?'
'Amy, you're talking to someone who likes writing but went into psychology. I hate psychology.'
'No, you hate people. There's a difference. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that when I was little, my music teacher wanted to send me to music school because she said I had a lovely voice, but my mom wouldn't let her. To this day I feel like I'm never going to do that. I could have been a great singer.'
'And now you're doomed to be a successful lawyer. It could be worse, trust me. Besides, you'll be using that voice in the court room to help put bad men in prison.'
'I'll never see any singing awards with my name on them. Not if I'm just a lawyer...'
'And that's fine. You'll have enough money to train one of your maids to sing. Then, when she's really good, you can legally change her name to yours. You'll have enough lawyering money to do that. You can rename people when you're rich. Then you'll finally get those singing trophies with your name on them.'
(bed.)
And if that doesn't work, you can always just buy the damn trophies. Nobody's going to see if you actually won them anyway.
Labels: career planning
posted by Henry at 1:42 AM
2 Comments:
I think you've confused 'maid' with 'slave'. Honest mistake.
I'm just saying, if it were my job to clean a rich lawyer's house and she were to turn me into a great singer and all I had to do was accept a large sum of money (...get my name changed to hers) I'd take her up on it, and I'm a MAN.
Imagine how much easier it would be for a woman to accept!
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