Not so fast!
Like a lot of young women these days, one of our secretaries had worked long and hard to put her boyfriend through college. After he graduated and passed his bar exam, I asked her if they planned to be married soon.
She looked at me with a big smile and said, “Oh no! Not right away. I want him to practice for at least six months first.”
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