I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.
“I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.”
“But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.”