“You have a really nice little place here,” said Lulu. He’d been here for a few days already, uninvited, but quite welcome
“W
hen you’ve made a mistake, admit it,” said Lulu. “That’s the most important thing when you fail at something.” He bit into his tuna sandwich.
“Why?” asked Mishka, his host. He selected the fattest sardine from the open can and moved it to his plate.
“Because when you own a store and it’s failing, but you keep telling yourself that any minute it’s going to start profiting, you just keep wasting money covering the losses until you have nothing left.”
“But you said your store was doing well at first.”
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