God I just wanted the phone to stop ringing! It had been hell in the office all morning, with one thing and another. I glanced at the clock, nearly lunchtime. At least I could have an hour to myself, an hour of perfect peace and quite. I pressed the intercom button on my desk. “Sandra…no more calls, I’m going to take a short nap.”
“Very well Miss Trimble,” came the tinny reply.
I unplugged the phone anyway, somehow I just didn’t trust that Sandra. My office was on the fifteenth floor, over looking the river. It had cost me an arm and a leg to get it, but the view was spectacular. When Daddy died, leaving me to run his business, I had fought tooth and nail to get an office with a view. Now I had got one, and I was going to enjoy it, if even only for an hour.
The one thing I had insisted on was my own bathroom. It got hot up here, particularly during the summer months, and sometimes I had to look my best for important clients. Besides I didn’t want to keep running outside every time I needed a pee. I pulled my chair over towards the window, which dominated the wall, and perched my self down with my feet up on the coffee table. Then I noticed, horror of horrors! I had a huge ladder running the full length of my panti-hose.
Getting up, I walked across the office over to the bathroom. The bathroom was really something special. It was wall-to-wall Italian marble, with a huge ornate mirror hanging over the ‘his and her’ sinks. I can’t really remember why I had twin sinks installed; it just seemed a good idea at the time, besides they were Tax deductible. Pulling up my lipstick red skirt, which wasn’t very far because I like to wear them short. I removed my laddered panti-hose, screwed them up into a tight ball and deposited the offending items into the rubbish bin.