It's not his fault, it's the breed

A friend of mine emailed me today to suggest a blog post topic. He suggested that "you need to add the story of the 400lb guy behind me who breathes louder than a bulldog." I don't actually know who the guy is, but I know the type. The contract attorney world is, at its essence, all about the person you don't want to sit next to. Unfortunately, there are far too many stereotypical contract attorneys that you don't want to sit next to. The majority of contract attorneys are decent people of reasonable intelligence and not overtly offensive in any way. The problem, of course, is the significant minority (and, let's face it, that could be up to 49.9%) who are not decent, or of reasonable intelligence, or who are overtly offensive in some way. In light of those standards, I guess a really fat guy who breathes like a bulldog (and anyone who knows anything about bulldogs knows that they have respiratory problems, and that those problems generally are noisy) is pretty low on the scale. Seriously, it could be worse -- he could be a farter.