[lit-ideas] Re: Yost's offer

>>I'm wondering how you "buy [someone] a drink" at an open bar.
That party was the most spectacular display of conspicuous consumption I have witnessed.
I walked up to John and said, "This is too much, impossibly generous. You've got to let me buy you a drink."
He said, "Don't worry about it. ____ is leaving town in June and it's the least I could do for his birthday."
I said, "I insist. Please let me buy you a drink sometime." 

"Just have a good time."
"You must let me do something for you. It's only fair."
He smiled and said, "Okay, next time we go out, buy me a drink."
When I returned to the table and mentioned the conversation to my friend, _____, he said, "Yost you make $__ an hour copywriting. John made three million dollars today in a trade." 

"That's not the point," I replied.
And so it was. Over a month later, we went out and I bought John a drink.
Not embellishing a memory though perhaps distorting the actual dialog, 
Eric


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