Good long day.
Question: How long does it take to get a tiny bug out of your eye?
Answer: You can’t.
I learned something about how people talk around here. I asked somebody for a favor, and they couldn’t do it, but instead of telling me outright, they said: “Well I don’t know about all that.” They then talked around the issue, occasionally addressing my request obliquely, until I realized that the answer was a ‘No’—but instead of slapping it down on the table in front of me, the ‘No’ came down slowly in a parachute… It was a nice way to do business…
Penultimate 