Sometimes they are. Scene: table at a fancy luncheon by one of the foreign tourist companies that does a very good job of helping writers.
PR Rep: Let's go around the table to see why each of you came (elementary school teaching, perhaps, but she wanted to get a conversation going).
One travel writer: I never pass up a function where there's food; I save a lot of my grocery bill by coming to these things.
Dinky Jones
