Chapter 5 - Julian’s Family Worshipped Appearance
The Prescotts were wealthy.
Not private-jet billionaire wealthy.
Regional-business wealthy.
Julian’s grandfather started a commercial insurance brokerage.
His father expanded it into:
risk management,
employee benefits,
high-net-worth advising.
By the time Julian was thirty-three, the family business employed:
almost two hundred people.
Julian worked there.
Vice president.
Good salary.
Equity.
His parents owned a large home outside:
New Albany.
Country-club membership.
Charity boards.
Everyone dressed:
correctly.
Spoke:
correctly.
Attended:
correct events.
Nothing wrong with any of that.
The problem was what Julian believed those things:
proved.
At restaurants he noticed:
servers’ shoes.
At hotels he complained if:
valets were slow.
Once a contractor came to his condominium in muddy boots after an emergency pipe leak.
Julian later said:
“People like that have no awareness.”
The man had just:
stopped water from flooding three floors.
I said:
“He was working.”
Julian answered:
“So?”
May you like
That should have bothered me more.
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