“Cash or card?” — my daughter-in-law asked me right in the middle of the table as if I were her wallet, while my son dragged me to what he called a “normal family dinner,” where 12 people had already eaten through more than $8,000 before they even bothered to look at my face.
Die schwarze Ledermappe mit den Schecks landete vor mir mit der stillen Endgültigkeit eines Richterhammers. Einen Augenblick lang schien die…