The Melancholy Korean

"Captain."

"Mell, how you doing?"

"Just want to apologize..."

"No way, Mell. I should apologize."

(silence)

"You know, captain, all this apologizing is going to make me cry."

"Ha. You sound good, Mell. Really relaxed."

"Let me just say Nicky knows his shit."

"Dollar's up two and a half percent this week.  You see that?"

"Tricky's one and done, captain.  Bernanke will close the gap faster than you can say the frogs haven't had a winner since Napoleon. And he wasn't even French."

(silence)

"Come on, Mell. Don't do this to me. What was it like?"

(silence)

"Lip my stocking!"

(silence)

"Jesus."