Ingrid, lighting a cigarette, tells me, “I’m going to quit.”
“You are?”
“Yes.”
“When did you decide?”
“I’ve been thinking about it for awhile.”
“I didn’t know that. . .”
“Yeah. It’ll be in a month at the latest.”
“So soon? What are you going to do?”
“Well, I need to prepare myself, mentally and physically, first.”
“Okay. But what are you going to do after you quit?”
” . . . I don’t know.”
“When’s your next vesting date?”
” . . . For my stock options? I don’t know. I don’t really pay attention to that.”
“You might want to figure that out, and make sure you time it right.”
“Okay, I guess so. . . Are we talking about the same thing?”