{"id":20936,"date":"2016-03-16T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=20936"},"modified":"2016-03-29T18:15:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T22:15:38","slug":"a-deal-is-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/16\/a-deal-is-a-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"A DEAL IS A DEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At<\/strong> his<\/strong><\/span> 90th birthday party, Mort Gross talked about real estate. (Yiddishe Cup played Mort’s party.) Mort sounded like my dad, except Mort was a lot richer, lived a lot longer than my dad, and was more outgoing and more philanthropic than my dad. Mort developed properties; my dad never did that. Mort had a yacht in Florida and a Rolls Royce. My dad never got beyond Buick.<\/p>\n

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Mort had three favorite expressions: 1) A deal is a deal<\/em>\u00a0 2) Wait a minute<\/em> [to kill a deal], and\u00a0 3)\u00a0Don\u2019t do paperwork twice.\u00a0 <\/em>I learned this at the party.
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I didn\u2019t understand item #3, and I forgot to ask the person who did the roast for an explanation of item #3 — “Don’t do paperwork twice.”\u00a0 I said to\u00a0 one of Mort’s son, \u201cThose were very good toasts, and I’ve heard hundreds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe the<\/strong><\/span> toasts were sappy, and I was just thinking about my dad a lot. A second son toasted, \u201cOur parents instilled in all of us a love of Judaism, and we all married Jewish girls. In fact I did it twice.\u201d<\/p>\n

I’m telling you, they were good toasts.<\/p>\n

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I had a piece in the New York Times<\/em> 3\/12\/16. “I’m not Evil.\u00a0 I’m a Landlord.”<\/a>\u00a0 Check out the comments in the post below, “For NYT Readers.”\u00a0 The comments are good!<\/span><\/p>\n

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