Being a Self-Made Man/Woman
Edgar: What a Crock!
Ann: What is it?
Edgar: I’m reading an article about successful business people who were Self-made men and women. I don’t believe a word of it.
Ann: What don’t you believe?
Edgar: These people didn’t Pull themselves up by their bootstraps. They were all Born with silver spoons in their mouths.
Ann: Not all successful people were Born into money and Privilege.
Edgar: That’s true, but it gets me Riled up when people who grew up at the Country club claim to have had Humble beginnings.
Ann: Just because some people were born with A leg up doesn’t mean they didn’t work hard to get where they are.
Edgar: Where would that hard work have gotten them if they didn’t have Backers with Deep pockets, or if they didn’t know People in high places? I know plenty of hard-working people who aren’t Hobnobbing with the rich and famous.
Ann: That’s true enough. Who needs the rich and famous? I’ll take my hard-working man over any of them any day.
Edgar: That’s why I married you – a woman with beauty and brains!
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