It was one of those rainy days, the ones where its raining just hard enough to keep everybody inside and feeling gloomy as a Cubs fan during the World series. I was sitting at my desk launching pencils into the ceiling and flinging cards at a hat on the other side of the room, wishing I had just stayed home in bed. At least there I'd be doing something. Sleeping.
Then she walked in. Of all the one-man human resources departments with current ads for personal assistants in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. The minute she walked in I knew she was either too good to be true or too much trouble to be any good. Or maybe both.
She opened the door and stood there in the frame just long enough for me to take her all in but not nearly long enough to do it as well as I wanted to. She was a looker from the top of the floor to well above her head. She had on black high heels that put her ankles at a magnificent pose, leading up to two fabulous calf muscles. Her legs were covered by a gray skirt that came down just below her knee, but I could tell just from the knee down they would be everything they needed to be all the way up. Her skirt came tight at the waist and she wore a black silk blouse buttoned down just low enough to torment. She had curves that would make Richard Petty think twice. When I finally managed to lift my eyes up to her face I was beyond impressed. This dame was one fine doll. Here in my one man office. On a rainy day.
I leaned back in my chair and tossed one more card toward the hat. It hit both sides and bounced out. She smiled and walked toward my desk.
"Looks like you could use a personal assistant," she said with a voice so sultry it could stop traffic. Outside I heard two cars collide. I assumed it was because they heard it.
Managing to keep my usual suave style, I managed to think of at least half a dozen clever things to say before finally settling on stuttering out "are you here about the job?"
She nodded, moved over to the chair in front of my desk and slipped into it like a hand into a glove, turning her legs slightly to the side so that the skirt rode up above her knees. I tried not to look, but I could tell her knees were even better than her calves.
"I'm here for the...any job you might have," she said with a look that was either suggestive or inquisitive.
"Well," I said carefully looking at a pile of paperwork on my desk related to some past due IRS payments, " we do have several jobs for personal assistants, and in fact I may need a personal assistant myself," I said. "As you can see the work is really piling up."
Her long skinny hand came up to the side of her face as she turned her head slightly to weigh the gravity of the suggestion, then she turned to look around the barren room for some sign of activity or work.
Besides the dart board, the hat with cards laying all around it, and a half empty bottle of tequila, there was no much evidence to support the claim. Not that it mattered.
She gazed back at me and crossed one long sexy leg over another, gave me what had to be a quick once-over and said, "so what kind of work would you need me to do?"