Quotation
“I serve the community, not one household, no matter how much they give back to it. The worst deadbeat in town is entitled to the same amount of protection as the pastor at St. Matthew’s.”
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Give me a doohickey, any sort of doohickey. Don’t tell me what it does, hold the corporate instructions, and give me forty-eight hours to figure it out on my own. I’ll write you a users’ guide any five-year-old could follow.
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His first reaction, when he suspects a leak, is to plug it with a corpse.
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I’m as qualified to perform a one-man rescue operation as Mr. Magoo.
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No doubt my elaborate show of normal behavior is just as suspicious as if I were creeping through the hedge in a fedora and trench coat.
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Another thing amateur sleuths always seem to have is a friend who can make a computer sit up and beg for him to hack it. I do have one of those.
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“Tell that to my clients. They pay me as if I were Edgar Allan Poe. He went hungry most of the time.”