The nice car and house line reminds me of this iconic quote from Thank You For Smoking:
“Can I ask you something?”
“What?” Nick said suspiciously.
“It pays the mortgage,” Nick said. He had offered this rationalization so many times now that it was starting to take on a ring of a Nuremberg defense: I was only paying ze morgage...
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Tempted as he was to make his other calls, there was the matter of the mortgage, and also [...] the tuition bill for Joey’s next semester at Saint Euthanasius, and...
The nice car and house line reminds me of this iconic quote from Thank You For Smoking: