...and that's why, here at Minos's Farms, we pride ourselves on our free-range livestock and hand milking.
The adman hit the pause button, the smiling face of the kindly old man on the screen freezing mid gurney as they turned to face the far end of the conference desk.
"So, thoughts?" He asked with only the slightest hint of nerves.
Mark leaned back in his chair, his eyes never leaving the Adman as he let out a long breath. The meeting room was empty aside from the two of them and the only sound was the creaking of the leather chair and the hum of the air conditioning.
"Hand milking..." Mark said, letting the words hang as he stared down the Adman.
"Ah, right! Well, we understood from the information that was made available to us that your hand-milking process is unique in the modern industry." Even though the air con was keeping the air frosty a sheen of sweat was starting to form on the man's face. "Was that not something that we should have mentioned?"
"It's a trade secret," Mark said flatly. "Get rid of it and then get back to us."
He pushed himself up out of the chair, ignoring the apologies and promises of the Adman as he walked out of the conference room. The office beyond was the picture of modern success, all polished metal, shining glass and tasteful wood accents. You would never know that this was the front office of a farm and his wife liked it that way.
"Know where Kathy has got to?" Mark asked the receptionist as the Adman shuffled out of the office with his tail between his legs behind him.
"I think she is down in the prize ring," the receptionist replied before her phone rang and she turned away.
Mark chuckled to himself and started heading that way. Kathy was his wife, at least, that was what it said on the paperwork and it kept both of their families off of their backs. He had no interest in sex, which had killed pretty much every relationship he had ever had and she had, other, tastes.
The sun was hanging high in the sky as he stepped out of the office and took in the rolling farmland. Once you got beyond the main compound and its squat sheds and coldly gleaming processing plant you where greeted by acres upon acres of rolling countryside. Mark loved the place, the landscape had been the reason he had taken a shit paying job as a farmhand here in the first place all those years ago. Back then he hadn't known anything about the finer points of hand-milking nor had he really known Kathy. Yet he had managed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended up with an offer for marriage and a management position in his lap because of it.