You know, if I don't survive the next economic downturn, if I never managed to succeed in becoming one of those businesses that survives for a couple of hundred years, no matter, I have had a wonderful time in the process.
I had to visit a friend last night in the city for his 50th birthday, an artist named Oliver Watts, actually Dr Oliver Watts, and I took myself off for a martini and a burger before hand, departing the restaurant I was at the rain started coming in, I pulled out my old Pasotti umbrella that I hardly ever used, and as I turned onto Pitt Street from King a man in a bow tie walked across the street, my eyes not being what they used to be I kind of squinted a bit, then, putting two and two together I called out to Dr Chang and he looked back and we were both happy to see one another.
What a gift it has been to serve you all.
When I got to the restaurant where I was to meet Oliver, he made a point of saying to me "did you not notice, this is one of your knitted ties and your white shirt" and he pointed to his arrow cuff.
Yes yes, I may not survive, I have to accept that nobody gets a free run at it, there are factors outside of your control, political changes, economic changes, fashion and trend changes, cultural changes. In fact, there are so many changes going on around us that one might just be happy to survive irrespective of whether you are in business or not.
But there, in the city, on a rainy night in September, I saw something that I could be proud of and frankly, I was pretty happy with myself on the drive home.
To all those that have supported us, like Dr Watts, like Dr Chang, doctors for different reasons, I just want to say thank you.
