WAS-NAA annual meeting, January 28, 2002, San Diego, california USA

摘要

We all know a person like this. A young father, perhaps from San Diego, starts his day when his Sony alarm clock goes off, and then he takes a shower using an adjustable Jacuzzi showerhead. He goes into the kitchen where his wife is preparing some hot Nestles cocoa for the children. For him, some fresh coffee beans from Colombia are being ground in the Braun coffee grinder. After breakfast, he slips into an English tweed sportcoat and a pair of Ferragamo loafers, jumps into the BMW, and picks up the Toshiba car phone to catch up on the day's events. He makes a quick stop at the Shell station for gas. At the office, he reads some messages from his Panasonic fax machine and copies a few on his Canon copier. After a quick bite at a Burger King, he stops at Union Bank's new Olivetti ATM for some loose cash, picks up his new suit at Brooks Brothers, and even has time for a few sales calls. Weary from the day's work, he heads home for a light dinner of pasta with Ragu sauce, Bird's Eye vegetables, Pillsbury Dough Boy rolls, and some Lipton tea. After dinner, he and his wife relax: he with Teacher's whiskey and Canada Dry ginger ale, she with Beefeater's gin and Schweppes' tonic. After the children are in bed, they watch a little TV on the Mitsubishi big screen with some Couvosier for him and Kaluha for her. She asks him how his day went and he says, "You can't believe what our financial planner wants. He wants us to invest 30 percent of our portfolio in international equities. Of course, I told him that we couldn't do that because we don't know anything about foreign companies!"