Boron - Chapter 20

Well, how about that? It got very quiet in the room and he
turned away from me and I remained silent.

It shook me up some. Not an enormous amount but some. All
kinds of things ran through my head. I wanted to explain to
him that I was sorry and didn't realize I was disturbing
everybody and, also I wanted to run a "macho trip" on him
and tell him if he kept running his mouth I was going to rip
off his head.

And, I also thought of simply explaining to him that a
better way to handle a situation like this would have been
to simply tell me the volume was too loud and then I would
have voluntarily turned it down.

But I didn't do any of those things. What I did instead, as
I said, is I remained silent eating a little humble pie.

Well, Bondy, I think I made a good decision. But I'll tell
you, it's hard for me to live with. Unfortunately, however,
that sort of thing sometimes is a part of being in prison
and, in this case, the matter was a little complicated by
the fact that the guy who did the yelling usually conducts
himself in a way as to have very little friction with other
people. He does his time quietly doing a lot of exercising
and studying an accounting course.

But that - "and don't give me any back talk" really got to
me and I feel a little bit cowardly for not calling him on
that. And that may have been satisfying for my ego and my
pride but it would have been really dumb.

By the way, I want to maybe surprise you a little at this
point by telling you that everything in this letter has a
lot to do with creating better ads and DM pieces! And don't
even try to guess why at this point because I'll explain it
before I am finished.