So I'm walking through the new Moynihan train hall which just opened I guess during the pandemic

and on my way here it's like two hours ago and I see a ghost. I see this guy that I worked with

for like probably two or three years and I just forgot that he was even a character in my life.

The donut? No, no, no, no. So this guy was in charge of the prop trading unit

at a broker deal where I worked at and his whole thing. He was like not a trader,

he was like in charge of the desk and more importantly every day how much they made or lost

and he was like maniacal about the whole thing and in those days probably still now

the prop traders like were always felt underpaid, right? So he would have to have a negotiation with

them every month how much how much they contributed to the success of the trading desk and

I just I never had anything to do with him because I was a broker or I just remember him always being like

like there'd be like a there'd be like a commotion in the hallway like people waiting outside his door

he would come out of his office he'd say guy guy come over here let me show you something

and he would walk people around the back of his desk to his computer he'd say guy this

screen doesn't lie and he would say that every single time this screen doesn't lie here's the screen

it's not lying and I listen to him do this every month with 10 different traders like honestly

for I think two full years and so and then I never thought about this gentleman ever again

and I see him just now and I do it I wanted to pull my mask up over my face like if I had a

hooded sweatshirt on it would have been so I I avoided fortunately because I it's one of

these things where it's like I hope this guy forgot that I'm alive probably not not a chance

but I definitely forgot that he's alive and his screen that doesn't lie and that whole routine

it's just it's just like one of these reminders that oh my god life is very different now than back then

and he's still doing it with the hot dog vendors in case the screen doesn't lie he could be homeless

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