A December to RememberChapter 2
After the meal was over, Noru arose to begin his annual ritual of boring everyone to sleep with his interminable speech. One year he talked non-stop for two full hours until somehow the electrical power to the podium microphone got cut off. My staff gave me a trophy for that secretive commando feat – I'd bribed a waiter to start throwing electrical circuit breakers until there was silence. This year, he seemed especially animated and out to set a new record for speaking the longest without...