My first “real” job was at a place called Taco Loco in downtown New Hope. I was the manager, the cook and the guy who took the orders up front. There was a fencing academy next door and a very lonely (fencing) man whose joy was to make his ordering experience about as painful for me as possible. He knew damn well what was on the menu but dragged me through his questions about food every day. I came home one day and put down a typical transaction on tape. It wasn’t hard to recall, I knew it very, very well. The dude was a loser, a loser who made my life hell for 10 minutes a day. People who fence are weird.“ – Gene Ween