Oh, I Think So

Their eyes locked and he smiled. "Well, look what the cat dragged in!" exclaimed Handsome.  "I thought you'd fallen off the face of the earth." She smiled broadly at Handsome. "Nope," she said.  "Just working too much and staying off the streets." "Well, if you have a job, you don't need the streets.  Am I right?" he asked with a grin. "Mostly, but sometimes a person needs some mad money," she replied with a chuckle.  She hated when she chuckled but she couldn't help herself. "So good to see you," he said.  "You're a sight for sore eyes." She blushed and said, "Stop.  Stop!"  She felt like a schoolgirl. The receptionist was listening to the conversation and watching it like a tennis game.  Handsome knows HER?  He's happy to see HER?  She knows HIM?  And they're FLIRTING!  It was all over the receptionist's face which they both noticed. "Let's ...

The Universe, being what it is, liked to insuate itself into her life.  The day after the Fourth of July holiday, she was summoned to the H.R. office where she was joined by their big boss, in town for the day. "You're doing a great job," said the boss.  "We are most impressed." "Thank you," she said with great apprehension.  Being called for a meeting with someone in charge when you didn't know that person was in town is jarring. "I can see you're worried.  Stop worrying.  I mean it.  You're doing great.  So great that we want to send you on a seminar for a week in Vegas," he said. Vegas.  Interesting.  She didn't think of Vegas as a place for a seminar, but what the heck. "Next week," said the boss.  "Someone from the Portland office decided he better not go because his wife is due to give birth any day now.  So there's an opening that we don't want to go to waste and I thought you'd be p...

As the Fourth of July holiday approached, she realized that she had a good strong grip on the job and was in no danger of being let go for incompetence.  The company was as crazy as any other company; she knew they could decide at any time -- be it whim, caprice, or just because -- to just close up her office but if her deparment ran well with no major errors then they might put everyone in other offices.  She might not have a job but at least her underlings would have be employed. With her strong grip on the job came the realization that she was bored with the present state of affairs.  She'd worked too many hours these last six months and she wanted to do something that wasn't this.  Her V.P. didn't encourage her to have a balanced life; the company liked the salaried employees to work harder than was necessary.  They gave her a parking space in the building -- "This building has parking?" she'd asked. -- so there was no argument about public transportatio...

June 1st came and spring turned into unrelenting heat and humidity.  She had to ask H.R. to talk to the one guy who rode his bike every day in the hot weather about sponge baths, deoderant, and offensive odors being bad for morale.  She had to address the issue of the 60-year-old, short, chubby lady who insisted on wearing low-cut tops with spaghetti straps, making the office see not just her crepey neck but her super-crepey chest and a lot of her aging breasts. That conversation went like this: "Really?" she asked the woman. "It's hot out," the woman said. "And there's no a/c in here?  Really?" she asked the woman. "Once I get hot I stay hot," said the woman. "Really?  Because you know there's a dress code, right?  That says 'no revealing tops on women'?" she asked the woman. "This isn't that revealing," said the woman. "So you concede it's somewhat revealing?" she asked t...