Bruce Krasting recounts his role as provocateur at a 4th of July party that included enough entrepeneurs, Wall Street folks, Social Security recipients, young people, and public employees to make things interesting:
It was a mixed crowd. A few local business folks (my plumber was there). Mostly commuters to the Big Apple. Lawyers, a doctor or two. I met one accountant. The Madison Avenue types are always a laugh. A number of Wall Streeters (more women than men). And one blogger.
So I started an argument. It got out of hand. Some spouses had to break it up. One lady later accused me of pushing the row; I was ‘raining’ on the holiday fun. And anyway, “there were kids aroundâ€. What type of example were “we†setting arguing like that?
The fireworks began long before sunset. It’s both amusing and terribly, terribly sad.
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