A while ago I learned a very valuable lesson about the company you keep and about where you are from and where you are now. I was at a local watering hole with some friends and having dinner at the bar. Now the place I was at is a classic New England fishing town type bar, with more than a few colorful characters. Cheap drinks, people who look tired and weathered and bartenders that look like they have been working there their whole life.

I was conversing with my friends when a woman next to me started staring at me and wondering what I was doing there. I was in a nice suit, nice shoes, a twenty thousand dollar watch and I must admit I looked a little out of place. But this was a local bar with great food and I didn't feel out of place.

This woman came right out and told me I didn't belong there.

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