Tom had duplicates of everything, you can't trust the airlines, not even Air Canada.Tom had duplicates of everything, you can't trust the airlines, not even Air Canada. You see, there were supposed to be four us on the specification team, Tom, Dave, Connie and me. On the way to the airport Connie somehow managed to sprain her ankle sufficiently bad to go to the hospital and our secretary cancel our reservations. Connie's and my reservations were together since we were supposed to share a room. When we got to the Holiday Inn near Motorola they only had a room for Tom and Dave; no room for me at all. The hotel was hosting a convention and all the rooms were booked. They put me up at a Holiday Inn on the beach; a lot of good that does me with my complexion and of course with only one car I had to pick up my co-workers each morning." "Sorry you've so many problems I hope things have gotten better." "The meetings went fine; we signed the contract with Motorola this morning, but that leaves nothing for me to do until Sunday. I suppose I should be grateful that police located my briefcase. My boss was livid when he found out that I couldn't get back until Monday. He threatened to take my extra expenses out of that stupid secretary's salary. Can you imagine, she canceled the reservation without consulting anyone?" "Well at least you have a car you could go sight seeing, maybe you could drive up to Orlando and see Disney World or another attraction up there. It's only about a three hour drive one way if you left early in the morning you'd have plenty of time." "Hm, I'll have to consider that; in the mean time dinner is on me, or really on my company, and I hope it comes out of that bitches salary." Rita brought a pint of ale for each of them and each ordered the steak and mushroom pie. Don asked, "So how'd you find this place, it's not exactly a tourist attraction?" "Jim, one of the Motorola people, brought us here for lunch yesterday. I like pubs and with nothing else to do tonight I felt like a good drink and after dropping the others off at the airport I needed one. Do you come her often Don?" "Oh I come in a couple times a month for a drink or two and every month or so for dinner. I work down in Boca for IBM so this is too far to come for lunch. |