
said that. Then I’d swallow hard and listen. After that conver-
sation I knew I had to go back the next day and make amends
with her. [His peer] helped me see, without saying it outright,
that I hadn’t considered all the facts. I had made a pretty big
mistake in how I handled it. I felt loads better after the talk
even though I had to face the fact that I had been wrong. You
need a sanity check every now and then.
The guy I call a lot is very opinionated. He’s fun to be
around. I’d get home at seven or eight at night and pick up the
phone, “[The peer’s name] I did the dumbest thing today. Let
me tell you what I did. Or is this unique? Have you ever heard ...