Lunch with three ne’er do wells, or the 4 T’s luncheon

I went into Manhattan today. I was down in the financial district for the first time in quite a while – probably 18 months.

The purpose was to have lunch with three people I used to work with, as we celebrated the engagement of one of them, Tish (as in Patricia) Lent. I met Tish Lent about 11 years ago. For awhile she was the secretary for Tom Corwin, while he was an investment specialist. I have known Tom for almost 25 years. He recently "retired" but is actually still working with his clients.

The third person was Ricky Thomas, who I’ve known at least 15 years, and who now runs his own hedge fund.

A slight shuffling of names yields the four T’s: Tish Tom Tom and Thomas!

So we met up and had a fine lunch at some sidewalk bistro, a block or so off Broad Street. Tish is getting married in November to a guy ("Owen") she knew in grade or high school and then ran into a couple of years ago. As often happens in these reunion lunches we kicked around lots of names of people who’d come and gone from our former marketing group, which was first The Kronish Agency and later The Norton Group. Where are they? how are they doing (how are we all doing!)? That sort of stuff. An excellent long lunch.

So here’s Tom and Tish (middle of the street at Broad and Wall),

Here’s Ricky:

Tom Again,

Now here’s Tish. By the way, Tish (or Tisha) is a very funny lady. She probably could have made a living as a stand up comedienne.

And here’s Tish and meself. Note my hairline!

Tom and Ricky figuring out the bill – looks like a Laurel and Hardy routine

And then we were off our separate ways! With the usual comment "We’ll have to do this more often."