That is the whole of it and there are no exceptions in it, and you will be wrong about it maybe one time in twenty, and being wrong one time in twenty is the price of the other nineteen.

And if somebody senior tells you not to — if a person with more training and a better suit and a badge without VENDOR on it stands up and says no, she’s fine, she caught her heel — you call anyway, and if it costs you the job then it costs you the job, and you come and find me and I will give you a reference.

I have taught that class thirty-one times.

I do not tell them where it comes from.