He leaned back in his chair and patted his bulging belly with his left hand. He laughed in his boisterous, deep staccato way, and then leaned over his legs and peered down at the spot on the floor where I stood.
“I didn’t think it was that big of a deal, honestly,” he said, his voice booming. The giant leaned back in his chair and rummaged around in the chest pocket of his flannel shirt. “Probably some kind of a financing thing, is my guess,” he shrugged in his slow, deliberate way.
“But, you have to save your receipts,” I said, standing tall. I’d been his tax attorney too long to give in to his casual indifference toward accounting. We went through this every April. “If you don’t have the receipts, I can’t make your deductions,” I had to speak very loudly just to be heard. His giant head was a long way from the floor. And I was a small man to begin with. That’s probably why he liked me.
The Giant peeked over at me only for a flicker of a moment, the only indication that he was paying any attention to me. His eyes were on his chest pocket, still rooting around in there, trying to get his lumbering fingers even into the pocket, let alone find whatever it was he was trying to fish out of there.
“Sam. Honest,” I said. “They changed the laws this year. You have to have your receipts to deduct charitable donations.”
He grunted and his eyes flicked away from the pocket and back to me for another half-a-second. He was unaware that tip of his tounge was sticking out just a bit as he dug in the pocket. He did that with his tough whenever he concentrated. Which meant that I wast going to get proper attention until after he’d come up with whatever was in his pocket. I wish I could stomp around, throw a fit, make some kind of a statement to get his attention away from his damn pocket— but there’s a limit to the kind of line in the sand you can draw when your adversary is 7 stories tall. 
His furrowed brows shot upwards as his shirt pocket flexed and strained under his pushing. “Aha! he shouted. The sound of his voice nearly knocked me off my feet.