Recent conversation with a client

Client: I always won­dered why peo­ple became lawyers. Is it because you really love the law?
BLC: No, it’s because we’re inse­cure, argu­men­ta­tive type As who need to be right, all the time. Oh, and we like to humil­i­ate our oppo­nents.
Client: (Laughs hys­ter­i­cally). You’re too funny! So any­way, about that claim…
BLC: (Keep­ing the “why did you think I was jok­ing?” to myself) Yeah, that one, I talked to the lawyer the other day, and…