So my last tale was one from the start of my career, so for this one I wanted to talk about a more recent occurrence. This will also be a much shorter story. But to be fair, none of my tales will ever be particularly long, since they happen over the course of 8 hours at most, and well, in the case of this story, it was not even 6 minutes of actual time. But enough preamble.
In the summer of 2016 I was working a car show in Michigan. It was a rather sizable show, a dealership with several car models on display, and they had splurged on about a dozen of us girls to help out. For my attire they sent me a lime green bikini and a simple pair of black heels. Not stripper heels thankfully, as there was no need for me to tower around at 6'4".
Now, to set a little bit of the tone, at this point, I'm 8 years into the business, and have had the pleasure of wrapping my mouth around, i'd argue, at least 50 of my employers. It's not an exact number, but my rule of thumb has always been, if I'm doing 40ish shows a year, at least 5~8 of those are spent working for a guy who thinks some portion of my day needs to be spent spit-shining the family jewel. Some years are feast, some years are famine, but you get the picture.
Anyway, so I show up to the convention center, parked at a meter knowing full well I'll kick the ticket over to my employer anyhow. I just didn't want to walk two blocks from the parking garage in my bikini and heels. I could have changed there, but I prefer to walk in prepared.
I'm around the fifth girl to arrive, making chit chat with my associates, checking out the cars, checking in with one of the supervisors for the dealership, working my way around the display area, making sure I know which cars are theirs. There's about an hour till the show kicks off. Haven't seen hide nor hair of anyone that should be handing us girls our fact sheets or giving us our sales pitch spiel.
The rest of the girls filter in, and once it looks to be the last one, I see if I know any of them from past shows, but no one looks familiar. At this point it's fifteen minutes to showtime, and I'm wondering if anyone is going to tell us anything, or we're just going to be going in blind.