Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Dinner
From time to time, I am invited to give speeches. Once, before the event, I went to dinner with a group of students. It was a nice establishment, suitable for entertaining guests and likely more expensive than I would have chosen on my own. We ordered our meals, and one of the students, I noticed, was unhappy with his choice. He told me he had selected the most expensive entrée on the menu, because someone else was paying for it, even though he didn’t like the main ingredient or the description. . . I will offer the anecdote for amusement, but I will not offer a moral.
