Consumer World
Charles Dawson
'Charles, for heaven's sake make up your mind', said my wife. 'Do you want to be happy, or do you want to be right?'
I had been chewing my teeth and muttering darkly about some iniquity or other, and found myself suddenly skewered by Lindy's uncomfortably penetrating question. I responded with a rather lame 'Umm, well...'.
Such things set a man to thinking. It occurred to me first that I really wanted both, and more besides. Second, that I was probably not the only person on the planet who felt that way.
One of the afflictions...