I, too, tend not to meddle into others' affairs/parlors. I tend to be nice to people until I make ten million dollars; then people will be nice to me.
*Sigh* Inflation.
The $30,000 Bequest -- Mark Twain
Saladin Foster was book-keeper in the principal store, and the only
high-salaried man of his profession in Lakeside. He was thirty-five
years old, now; he had served that store for fourteen years;
he had begun in his marriage-week at four hundred dollars a year,
and had climbed steadily up, a hundred dollars a year, for four years;
from that time forth his wage had remained eight hundred--a handsome
figure indeed, and everybody conceded that he was worth it.