I also want to meet Michael Quarles, so hopefully I can treat him to dinner or something at the very least, since I am the lucky winner of a contest he ran here on BP.

It is like trying to cook dinner for 50 older people.

I cannot tell you how many times I have met other couples for dinner or whatever and I am the only person who opened my wife's door.

One thing I vividly remember about that March is being out to dinner with my friend who worked as an IBanker at one of the large investment firms the weekend before the Bear Stearns collapsed.

Actually, a fair comparison would be: You live with a big family (there are many more people living in this country than just you) and some people in your family invite someone for dinner and because they heard that they can do some things that need doing in your house, they offered to pay to fix those things.  

We actually got seated across from each other at dinner one night and got to know each other very well.

Gift basket, dinner out, when the house closes.

I do most of the work and we sit and have dinner at a fine restaurant to plan our future and our investments together and write the planning session off on our taxes.

Once I was at the dinner table talking, I'd ask them what their goals are.

Should I offer to take him to dinner?