A Sigh of Relief

Wow, halfway through the week already!

This week has been interesting. We've had customers in from New York for meetings, but they all left today....all except one.

We've dubbed the "except one" the Brazilian Princess. She's very interesting. Whenever she comes to offsite meetings, she rolls up in jeans and looks very disheveled. Everyone else from her company wears slacks or skirts, but she aims for the casual look each time. For some reason, she was on a different flight than the rest of our clients, and decided that she was only going to stay down here for 1/2 a day because she didn't want to take a night flight because it would "waste her personal time". Unfortunately for her, she didn't bother to think about how she was going to get back to the airport after she got here, and the airport is about 45 minutes away from here.

About an hour or two before she was supposed to be at the airport, she asked my team leader to call a car service for her. We're in small town, USA here. The closest thing we have to a car service is a guy named Rusty who sticks a taxi sign on his car and ferries people around town. Rusty has also been convicted for meth, but he's clean now. Needless to say, we weren't about to send a multi-million dollar client to the airport with Rusty, nor were we going to ask the funeral home if we could borrow their limo to take her to the airport. My team leader talked to our administrative assistant about the situation and asked her to try to find a solution to our little dilemma. When he heard the admin's solution of sending her in the mail truck, he told her not to worry about it and asked me to take her instead.

What an experience! Here I am, caught off guard, hoping that my car (aka the purse on wheels) is clean enough for the princess. Plus, I'm being sent to a place that I've never made it back from without getting lost! On top of that, I'm stuck in a confined space with a woman that I have nothing in common with and I had to listen to her sing partial renditions of "We Built this City on Rock and Roll" several times over the course of the trip.

It was interesting to say the least! No doubt due to all the little prayers I was saying on the way, I didn't get lost the whole time and our conversations didn't get too awkward.

Who knows....maybe she'll email my boss and tell him to give me a raise!