Swelling with confidence, I did my best George Jefferson strut over to the car and slid into the driver's seat.
We felt a swelling of confidence when we brought them aboard L&L had a reputation for pursuing some high-profile police-misconduct cases in city history, including those of Juan Johnson, who spent 11 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder, and Joseph Regalado, who was beaten into a coma by Chicago cops.
He did not change his mind after his team played one of its better games, swelling it with confidence and instantly lending legitimacy to its championship aspirations.
In truth, though, it's news that is promoting a modest but swelling sense of confidence among the global medical community.
Rob, so close to being fired last week, knowing he's on his last leg, seizing the moment in a last-ditch effort to preserve himself, rises from his chair and points directly at the flipboard – "This isn't a candle," he says, confidence swelling over into an unprompted Jeremy Clarkson impression.
But this was for the familiar reasons declining fear of the opposition, growing self-confidence, a swelling number who have lost hope of promotion not because Mr Blair has abused Parliament's prerogatives in some novel way.
And none of the data draws a convincing argument for how home ownership functions as a form of behaviorist therapy, swelling credit lines and confidence and ultimately powering our economy.
And no visiting chief guest can miss the subdued militarism that infuses the Republic Day, the swelling of national pride, vaulting self-confidence, sending patriotic adrenalin on a run.
The swelling is receding, but not his confidence.
