Fitting In To Win [3]
"My secret is no loyalty." Patience and Vision: Ode to the ones that suffer in quiet, waiting for their time at the top. Holy Misfits 3.
Part 1 Here // Part 2 Here
“My secret is no loyalty.” He’s explains between swigs of old fashion that are ironically always made with Woodford. A testimony to some sort of loyalty.
It’s after hours. Moon is high. Somewhere around 1am and we’re all four in the ‘study’ of the Country Club.
Which is really a simple room full of leather furniture, earthy palettes, old books, never-leaving thin layer of smoke and plaques for tournament winners. Plus the pride and joy: A picture of the old head pro shaking hands with Tiger Woods before the whores and drugs.
We’ve been coming here for two years.
Back then I went home with the club pros daughter. Snuck into her dads room. Took his key fob outside. Lit a joint for her to smoke while I went to work holding each key over an open flame, placing a piece of tape to one side then pressing it into the back side of inactive credit cards. This seared all the keys intricacies into each card creating exact replicas that I delicately cut out. A tedious process. She had almost finished the joint by the time I was done, noticed and asked “what are you doing?” I responded “yes.” and finished. Leaving her there I walked to the clubhouse and tried all 12 key cut outs. One worked for the back door. Another worked from the pool house, another for the golf cart gates.
We got caught by local police and the club pro himself not too long after but when we told them what we were doing. “We’re trying to run those foreigners from up North away.” They agreed with the mission and have been willing to turn a blind eye.
(my attorney says I must restate that the local police know nothing of this. So, The local police know nothing of this and this isn’t a wink it’s an eye twitch from too many espressos.)
“You say that but always choose Woodford, always wear dark brown Jasper Jodhpurs on Thursdays, always wear that beat to shit leather watch even though you can afford something nicer.”
“You asked my mindset towards business, the one that got me this much money and I’m telling you how I see it. Also the Jodhpurs are classy, Woodford is pure American made and the watch was a gift. Another round?” and before anyone answers Sebastian is reaching around the bar to grab the square bottle.
He’s a layer, an alcoholic and I think a psychopath too but he has the one key difference, as stated by leading psychopath expert Robert Hare, that makes the difference between criminal and world leader psychopath: The difference between trailer trash emotionless losers vs long game hunters who don’t prioritize feeling:
FOCUS. FOCUS. FOCUS.
Pouring the glasses and slowing down midway through due to what I assume is an epiphany, he looks at me and says
“Loyalty doesn’t pay in the business world. That’s a fact. Not in the 21st century. I read a study in high school. They question askers, nerds that they are, punk ass dorks really, asked the highest paid earners in the USA to rank their top 10 virtues form highest to lowest.”
An abrupt stop.
He goes back to finishing the drinks but he knows what he’s doing.
He’s waiting on someone to ask him the results. Wanting others to show interest. And since I got him riled up this far, I bite:
“Okay Sebastian I’ll bite what were the results?”
“Glad you asked.” He smirks like a schoolboy while throwing in two Luxardos per drink and way too much bitters. “Well of all the listed characteristics, the highest paid earners said their least valued trait was..
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