Bev, for you.
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Looking back, that office was the best office I ever had. We were a workable group of six lawyers, with staff, a large enough group to have an entire floor of a downtown Columbus office building. In the division of expenses, I paid a little more, but I had the corner office overlooking the Ohio statehouse capitol grounds.
Mine was an historical office, I still say. Designed by an old Columbus law firm fifty years or so ago. It had built in bookshelves, real mahogany paneling, a nice conference room β and the division of legal work kept each partner content with the arrangement. My office was historical because, and I have this on good authority, Richard Nixon got drunk there. Yes, in 1970, after giving a speech on the state capital steps in Columbus, then President Nixon went over to what was later to be my office and got drunk! For that same speech, I marched down from the OSU campus, shouted "Fuck you, Nixon!" and raised my clenched fist in the air. Christ, it was only a few months after Kent State. The ghost of that SOB was there, a little, in that office.
While I hated him, I learned to appreciate Nixon from a different perspective. A wanna be piano player, a wine connoisseur who favored Chateau Margeaux. Sometimes, while drinking a glass of wine there, I felt his presence. Nixon's father had driven a streetcar in Columbus, before the family move to California. He still has relatives in the Ohio hills. From a poor background, he had to be bankrolled by somebody. Another lawyer, a different path.
But this isn't a political story. It is a tale of some fun in the office, fun that was initiated by Beverly, the office vamp. What's an office vamp? More than that it rhymes with tramp. Not only a floozy, not just a slut. An office vamp is a woman who is so attractive that guys drop by from other floors to see her, so attractive that men follow her down the street to see where she works. And an office vamp is a woman who, as much as anything else, likes to fuck, who shows it and says it. And Beverly would be the first to brag that she liked to fuck, I could hear her brag to the other office gals if I left my office door open. She'd say it loud, in public, she was proud of what made her individuality.