Face of Worry

Why, this fellow looks rather worried...

What can we guess, just by looking at his face? Well, I'd say he's the tie salesman in a mid-sized city's big department store. His name has to be Adelbert. He's worried that he will not make a sale today. He lives in a not too neatly kept studio apartment. When the middle-aged spinster across the hall goes on vacation, he feeds her cat.

When he was a kid, he had a pet frog named Edward; Edward had the habit of jumping out of his tank at night, and Adelbert would have to find him in the morning and put him back in his tank. One day instead of looking for Edward, who, as usual, escaped his enclosure, Adelbert decided to go out and play at the park with his friends. Edward wasn't found till three days later -- under the kitchen stove and dried up like a green raisin. Adelbert still feels guilty about it.