"Are you following me?" I asked the chairman of the improbably-sized investment company Prandeamus Asset Management as I spotted him sitting in a café in Beaune town square. "I could ask the same of you," he replied.
"After all, I've been here hours and, to judge by your stressed demeanour, clearly you've only just checked in." "Lucky guess," I grimaced, separating my two bickering daughters for the umpteenth time that day. "Anyway, I know you know very well we always stop off here on our way through France and this is the only place in town that not only serves ‘nuggets-frites' but is still willing to do so to my children. So, regardless of who actually arrived here first, I'd say you were definitely following me." "Let's agree to disagree," smiled the chairman, waving pleasantly to my other half, w...
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