Moving on with your career is about meeting influential
people and having a clever chat with them.
Today, I was waiting for a tube, just coming back from
the funeral at St Paul ’s.
I was joined on my journey by several well dressed gentlemen. One of them,
approaching 50's, approached the traffic warden with question about the best connection
to North Greenwich – business interest, obviously. Later he boarded the train and
spent he journey engaged in conversion with another peer. I overheard only the
word 'peer' while reading paper, business news. Upon leaving, I left the paper
on the seat. The well dressed gentleman took it. I meant to leave it for other
travellers to read, I apologized for what might be seen as leaving rubbish.
“That's all right', he said 'I read it on my next
train.”
He asked me whereabouts I was from.
“Slovakia ”,
he reacted to my country of origin. “I have a friend from there, Bruno, makes
good guns.”
I wanted to
respond, but could not find anything smart and relating to guns. Immediately, he
changed direction for his train, leaving me with no link to carry on in
conversation.
Well, I should learn a thigh about guns.