Dinner with Bill Gates

[The time is the late 1990's and the setting is an unidentified city in the northwest United States, in Washington. Three employees of Microsoft, the narrator, Encolpius, and his co-workers Giton and Ascyltus, have been invited to the illustrious mansion of billionaire Bill Gates, for a banquet.]         It was slightly drizzling as we approached the house. We were simply amazed at it's size, it was a good quarter mile in length and equally long in …

…and say nice things about him. This was just plain revolting, not something I'd expect to see at a dinner party with Bill Gates, owner of Microsoft. It was at this time my two companions and I snuck out of the dining hall and found our way to the front door. We grabbed our jackets and, taking one last look at the enormous house of this not so ideal roll model, left, exhausted and disgusted.