I swore to never leave the office again

If you have read my earlier post entitled Whatever it Takes, you will understand my reluctance to leave the office.

Every time I walked into an appointment after my incident with the kiss of the vampire; I would brace myself for a stranger to come up and greet me with a kiss. I brace myself ready to Karate Chop them and have my hand out so quickly to greet them with a hand shake!


Imagine if that is how we did business, I think the appointments might go a lot quicker due to the intimate nature of the introduction.

There is one appointment I went on that was very important to Bern and I as we had started our own little freight business and this client had the potential to either make us or break us.

We sat around a small circular table and we were very involved in the discussions about their best options for distributing their parcels. The meeting was at a very critical point and I was so deeply involved in the figures we had presented that I leant forward on my chair in eager anticipation as one tends to do when one is excited.

Whoops, I slipped under the table and to my horror I was looking right into his crotch. My head was resting right on his knees.

Bern was with me meeting, and watched this whole debacle unfold. I crawled out of under the desk backwards. Bottom first, Genteelly picked myself up off the floor and in a very graceful manner climbed back into my chair. Pretending that this did not faze me and that I had not just had my head at this man's crotch!

My client asked me is a very serious and concerned tone if I was all right and apologized for his floor being so slippery as it was a marble floor and he was so gracious not to laugh.

Bern on the other hand, doubled up in total fits of laughter and try as she might she could not help but laugh out like a raging baboon.

I sat there composed, and assured the client I was all right and that he was not to be concerned.

The meeting continued for a few minutes and the client agreed to give us a trial run.

We left his glass walled office and as I turned back to gesture goodbye, I caught the client laughing uncontrollably at the conference table. Hitting the desk with his hands and his shoulders were shaking in a fit of sheer hysterical laughter.

Bern and I left the office, by now I lost my ability to hide the total humiliation I felt and fell into a fit of giggles and Bern was joining in.

When she finally managed to catch her breath she said. "Way to go Girl, Take on for the Team!"

My stomach muscles were so sore from laughing, I had to drag myself to the car and we sat there in the parking lot for at least 10 minutes trying to compose ourselves.

I am sure the client was too embarrassed to refuse our request for his business and needed us to leave his office in a hurry to he could let out his loud guffaw.

Oh the things we have to go through to secure the sale.