You don’t say

“I definitely was smart enough not to try to start up a restaurant.”

Greg Buss, who left the real estate business for the restaurant business by purchasing the Egg Crate in Northwest Centre at 13th and Tyler

You don’t say

“They didn’t have advance-placement history back then. They were still making history when I was in school.”

Jim Patton of Airgas Carbonation, joking at a business meeting Friday morning at the Egg Crate that followed a breakfast his 17-year-old daughter and some other students had there before an advance-placement test