Thursday, November 13, 2008
WAITING
David hated waiting. Even in the supermarket waiting for his wife David would become restless and look for ways of amusing himself sneaking boxes of Durex into unsuspecting shoppers trolleys unnoticed. An Economics degree and wealth came easily; after all this was David’s niche, it wasn’t work. Where friends had married, found employment and accepted the rat race as the norm David had siezed an opportunity in New York making a name for himself as an aggressive dealer of futures. ‘You make your own luck in this world’ he would tell anyone who would listen, ‘if you want something you just gotta go and take it’ was David’s motto.
His second wife had pleaded with him to wait a year or two until they had started a family but ‘you’ve got to strike while the irons hot’ he’d told her without an ounce of emotion.
The nineties were a boom time and David couldn’t wait. It was profitable bringing in amphetamines cheap from the UK for the inflated US market, they were hedonistic days and the money just kept rolling in with David at the center of it all. But boom times don’t last forever, economics should have taught him that much. With his Court case set for Christmas, David would just have to wait.
David hated waiting. Even in the supermarket waiting for his wife David would become restless and look for ways of amusing himself sneaking boxes of Durex into unsuspecting shoppers trolleys unnoticed. An Economics degree and wealth came easily; after all this was David’s niche, it wasn’t work. Where friends had married, found employment and accepted the rat race as the norm David had siezed an opportunity in New York making a name for himself as an aggressive dealer of futures. ‘You make your own luck in this world’ he would tell anyone who would listen, ‘if you want something you just gotta go and take it’ was David’s motto.
His second wife had pleaded with him to wait a year or two until they had started a family but ‘you’ve got to strike while the irons hot’ he’d told her without an ounce of emotion.
The nineties were a boom time and David couldn’t wait. It was profitable bringing in amphetamines cheap from the UK for the inflated US market, they were hedonistic days and the money just kept rolling in with David at the center of it all. But boom times don’t last forever, economics should have taught him that much. With his Court case set for Christmas, David would just have to wait.
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