"Block, Lawrence - collection - The Collected Mystery Stories - 07 - Sometimes They Bite - Funny You Should Ask (A Pair of Recycled Jeans)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Block Lawrence)

"You're actually in Acquisitions?”

"That's a fact.”

"Well, this is my lucky day," Robert exclaimed. "You're just the man to give me all the answers. Where do you get the jeans? Who sells them to you? What do you pay for them? What sort of person sells perfectly good jeans?”

"That's a whole lot of questions at once.”

Robert laughed, happy with himself, his host, and the world. "I just don't know where to start and it's got me rattled. Say, this bypass is a small road, isn't it? I guess not many people know about it and that's why there's no other traffic on it. Poor saps'll all get tangled in traffic going into Charleston.”

"We'll miss all that.”

"That's good luck. Let's see, where can I begin? All right, here's the big question and I've always been puzzled by this one. What's a company like yours doing in the recycled jeans business?”

"Well," said the young man, "diversification is the keynote of American business these days.”

"But a company like yours," Robert said. "Rockford Dog Food, Inc. How did you ever think to get into the business in the first place?”

"Funny you should ask," said the young man, braking the car smoothly to a stop.