No-one from Lehmann Brothers - That's for sure !
A little off topic, so sorry in advance.
I've been working with one of my clients who are based in E1 this week; on tuesday on the terminally dull and long train journey to Waterloo I sat near a young couple who looked, quite frankly, too young to be out on their own let alone travelling off to Big Bad London on the train. Their conversation went roughly like this:
Her: "What can they do when we don't show up?"
Him: "I don't think there's anything they can do, don't worry" (quick hug him to her)
Her: "We won't get the deposit back, will we?"
Him: "Don't think so love, but don't worry we''ll sort something out." (quick hug him to her)
Her: "Why are we going in today, no-one's going to be there"
Him: "Don't really know, just seems like the right thing to do, we could go to the coffee shop and see if anyone else has come in"
Her: "Should we tell them, call them or something? They think we can still buy the house"
(hushed silence all around the carriage)
Him: "We'll sort something out" (quick hug him to her)
Her: " We can still go to Mum's at christmas"
Him: " It'll be fine, christmas is a long way off" (quick hug her to him)
No-one spoke in the carriage for the next half hour.
Not all the traders, hedge fund managers and bankers in the City are fat cat, champagne-swilling gluttons.
