Orr depended for sustenance on the streamful of smallfry created by Providence to feed the imperishably hopeful debtor. But even these waters sometimes ran sterile.

In the current era, there is too much demand for customer service and the restrains on budgets too great for you to allow cubbyholing.[…]And finally, out of necessity, a small organization like ours, with an increasing workload, could not afford to cubbyhole anyone, let alone 10 percent of our workforce. I advised my directors of my expectation that everybody had to work, that there was to be no cubbyholing, and that there would be no exceptions.

He suddenly wanted to vomit, to spill his guts right here on Lake Street in front of the thousands watching.

I had to be careful driving toward the river so I wouldn't high-center the car on a boulder and break the crankcase.