When I arrived at the office on Monday, I found a message on the voicemail from the Carter’s attorney. I had just spent two days last week going back and forth with them over the terms of their agreement of sale for the purchase of one of my client’s luxury condominiums. Now some hotshot attorney was going to muck up the waters and jepordize my commission. With a sale price over $600,000, this was an issue and had to be addressed.
The seller’s were very concerned at the news that the buyer’s had hired one of the top real estate law firms of the area to represent them in the pending transaction. I was not. When I found out the attorney assigned to the deal was a man, I knew that I could do my magic. The first thing that I did was arrange for a face to face meeting in his office.
Since Mr. Charles, Esq. was not available for several days, I went and prepared. Lingerie shopping had to be done. I needed my usual weapons to keep his guy off balance. New stockings (the kind with the backseams) and a black satin garterbelt. I followed that with a bikini waxing and manicure. Dazzling red nails always drew attention. And attention is what I needed to make sure this guy wasn’t going to be effective.
The day of the appointment, I was dressed to kill. My magenta mini-skirt and black jacket-top hardly made the conservative statement that this law firm was used to. I walked through the elegantly paneled halls of the firm and was led to Mr. Charles, Esq. office. I met his mature and very efficient looking secretary and wondered if she was his mom. She looked at me with steely eyes disapproving my very existence. (She must have known the effect I was going to have on her vulnerable employer.) I sat down in a leather guest chair and waited for the man of the hour’s arrival.
He did not disappointment me. He was an overdressed ivy league boy with the arrogant style that he viewed as earned. As he sat down behind his large cherry desk, I could not miss his once over glance that he gave me. I am sure he was assuming I was a bubble headed bimbo, which is just what I wanted.