I was talking to an ESI-Se interior decorator a few weeks ago. I’ve been spending money at a remarkably high rate to completely remake my house, and I told her that I was going to be broke at the end of the month.

ESI-Se: “You’re either flush or you’re flat broke.”

LIE-Te: “Uh, yeah... Actually, I have plenty of money. I’m just getting to the point where I’ve spent all the money I mentally allocated to this project. Obviously, I underestimated.”

My SLI-Te son chimed in. “He says he’s broke, but he always comes up with the money.”


I guess that’s how it looks from the outside.