it is easy to mix things up, even for a smart person…. I remember being in a mock trial in school. i played the defendant. the defendant worked for a company called “sellers and buyers real estate”.

In practice sessions, i kept messing up and getting it backwards, callling it ‘buyers and Sellers real estate”. my partner kept barking at me to get it right. sellers and buyers, not buyers and sellers. still, i kept screwing it up…Then, in the actual competition, the student lawyer for the other side asked me if i worked for “buyers and sellers real estate”. aha! I said “no”. this completely threw him off his game and you could see him starting to panic, like, what the f*ck do I do now?” Badgering me that i did actually work for buyers and sellers, pointing to the fact pattern, but I was just smug, kept with my “nope”…. He was asking the judge for help but no help was forthcoming. he got it backwards.

smart guy, too. this was all very formal, in a federal courthouse…funny…the details do matter in life; like getting the name or address correct……