Unsolicited business advice.

Dear Former-Business-Owner-on-Richmond Avenue,

I know this is too little, too late (as the poets say), since your designer dress shop has already gone out of business...but you just plain should have known better.

I mean, this isn't really the right economy for a fancy-schmancy dress shop, for one thing. But setting up right next door to a whorehouse? That wasn't exactly smart. What do realtors always say? Location, location, location.

And really, "next door to a whorehouse" is not the location you -- or your upscale clients -- were looking for.

Maybe you did this deliberately. Perhaps you thought that designer blouses and low-rent blow jobs went hand-in-hand -- or member-in-hand, as the case may be. I don't know, you could have been set up by an unscrupulous leasing agent -- or you could have been pioneering the new "Hand Jobs and Hand Bags District" of Houston. But hindsight is 20/20 -- and I bet you can see clearly that you needed glasses when you signed that lease.

I just saw that someone new has rented your old space, Former-Business-Owner-on-Richmond Avenue. They're remodeling, and they can remodel all they want, but there will still be a whorehouse next door. Also, the parking will still be shitty. Oh, well -- live and learn, eh?

Good luck in future endeavors...

Sincerely,
Sarah