I interviewed a rich artist over a fancy lunch once for a freelance assignment — his preference over the much easier phoner I’d suggested. Guy showed up 45 minutes late, was a dick to the server, and barely answered my questions. After he finished, he stood up and said “You can expense this right?” He didn’t wait…

My dad is a numismatist. My friend’s husband once told me the very special story of how, when he was a kid, he and his father were walking on the beach and found a rare coin that must’ve washed up from an old shipwreck. He asked me to have my dad to look at it. Turns out it was a really old but valueless token coin…