The big collectors ran publishing empires or advertising companies or owned Gap or (put in your own biggest thing).

The dealer said she was the most verbose person she'd ever had working at the gallery because she would say to the dealer, Call from (the name of the biggest collector or artist or whoever). Instead of just saying the name on its own.

The artists would sometimes come by in their suits. If they weren't already signed up, the dealer would seduce them with millions and new cars. If they had been signed up, but had moved on, everybody in the gallery always had to laugh when their name came up. What losers they were! How their careers were going down now!

Just before a new show went up, the dealer would go around and hug all the employees and cry and say how glad she was they were on the team. But sometimes there would be a mistake. For example, the receptionist once made the mistake of asking a caller to hold while she took another call, because no one could call for more than three rings without being answered. The call-waiting turned out to be only a wrong number, and the receptionist should have known that's all it was going to be. And she should not have made the caller whom she asked to wait feel bad about himself.

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