The Boss is out of the office quite a bit. He rolls in late. He takes off for meetings and lunch. In general, he's just not around much right now. Not that there's a lot to do, right now. Inevitability when he's out of the office, a squirrel or two shows up looking for him. Mostly they have stuff they need to drop off. That I can handle. I can also pretty efficiently take a message that they need him to call them back. I'm terrific at that.
Today a squirrel stumbled in not looking so great. "Where's the boss?", he asked in a shaken up voice.
"Out with a client", I cutely smiled. "Can I help you?" (This is the most dangerous of all sentences I can utter, because, as you know, I'm pretty helpless.)
"I was in yesterday and he gave me a list of things that he needed me to get together. But I lost it and I can't remember what was on it."
"What kinds of things?", Part II asked from across the room.
"Account numbers and documents... I don't know. It's all causing me pain!"
Quite a thing to claim! To be fair, he did look like he was in actual pain.
"Well how about I take your name and number. He'll give you a call when he comes in."
The Squirrel nodded, gave me his infomation and left the door mumbling, "I just don't know where that list went...".
The Boss was pretty unaffected by this story when he came in.
"Pain, huh? Just getting me his bank account numbers? What's going to happen when he sees the bill?"
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