self importance

After dropping off the dog for another set of X-rays, once again at the pet hospital, I stopped for a usual lunch at Sol Food - a popular, funky Puerto Rican restaurant in downtown San Rafael. The tables are communal, and the only spot left was sitting across from this self-absorbed looking character with his laptop, paperwork and phone to his ear.

For a half-an-hour or more, I had to hear his pitch to sell an "upstart", supposedly worth multi-millions, to the mogul music company - Pandora. Hard to eat while listening to a proposal "concept" conversation. In fact by the meal's end, I wouldn't even have considered taking in a "rescue dog" from this guy. But he just kept going - listening, then more pushing.

the Sol Food restaurant back in the 50's before the laptops and cell phones.