I am either a skeptical empiricist or a limousine driver!

I'm currently reading an interesting book called "The Black Swan". The author shared this story:

"Once, on a transatlantic flight, I found myself upgraded to first class next to an expensively dressed, high-powered lady dripping with gold and jewelry who continuously ate nuts (low-carb diet, perhaps), insisted on drinking only Evian, all the while reading the European edition of The Wall Street Journal. She kept trying to start a conversation in broken French, since she saw me reading a book (in French) by the sociologist-philosopher Pierre Bourdieu--which, ironically, dealt with the marks of social distinction. I informed her (in English) that I was a limousine driver, proudly insisting that I only drove "very upper-end" cars. An icy silence lasted the whole flight, and, although I could feel the tension, it allowed me to read in peace."

The author was actually a very successful quant trader on Wall Street. You will have to read the rest of the chapter to really get what he is illustrating. I thought this was interesting. Black Swans are everywhere!