This is a true story of my days at American University of Beirut when I was involved with a strike of the janitors. As we were preparing for the strike day, I was contacted by the leader of the Union of workers and employees at the university, who it turned out was a leader in the Progressive Socialist Party (call it Jumblat Party). He wanted to dissuade me. The dogmatic fanatic leftist that I was, would not be dissuaded, of course.