Gone Shopping
Published Jan 17, 2003

On a visit to Chicago, I was eager to visit a posh department store about a dozen blocks from our hotel.
My husband obligingly hailed a cab. "The lady wants to go to Neiman Marcus," he told the driver.
The cabby looked over his shoulder at us. "And the gentleman?" he asked. . . .
. . . "Does he want to go to the bank?"
Originally published January 18, 2003.