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figured what I'd need most in my new one was my
checkbook and my American Express card
"What do you mean?" he asked
"Someone who could afford to build here in the
first place could probably talk a couple of B-and-
C inspectors around
"B-and-C? What's that?"
For a moment I couldn't tell himI could see what
I meant: men in white shirts and ties, wearing
yellow hi-impact plastic hardhats on their heads
and carrying clipboards in their handsI could
even see the pens in their shirt pockets, and the
plastic pocket-protectors to which they were
clippedThe devil's in the details, right? But I
couldn't think of what B-and-C stood for, although
I knew it as well as my own nameAnd instantly I
was furiousInstantly it seemed that making my
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