A complicated menu brings a familiar sense of confusion for the chairman
The waitress was beginning to get impatient but the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet and I had been scanning our menus for some 15 minutes and were no closer to a decision. Yes, it was probably our fault for choosing a Finnish restaurant, The Tineke Frikkee, but we really liked the name. 'It's no use,' said the chairman. 'I still have absolutely no idea what to have.' 'You could try the old journalistic ploy and choose the most expensive things on the menu,' I said. 'Or we could always ask the waitress for some advice.' 'Never like doing that,'...
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