Usually at lunch most of my co-workers and I sit in the conference room to eat lunch. We like to watch trash TV like "E! Celebrity Couples" on the 62 inch flat screen on our lunch break. Well today, JK (the head boss) was walking by and stopped in to say hi. After a while of small talk, he started to tell us how he had to give a speech the next day to university students and he is not excited about it. The speech was about sales and how to change the industry. He said it was an hour long class, so he was thinking about doing a 20 minute presentation then have Q&A and just see what happens. He said, "I'll just kind of feel them out at first then go from there. I can even tell them after my speech that I'm reading their body language and I'm just not feeling it." He said, "I don't really see this going anywhere and for the sake of saving my time and theirs, maybe we should just end it at that point."
Thinking out loud, I said "Man, that sounds like most of my dates."
The entire room stopped and looked and me. When I realized my thoughts had actually left my mouth in front of the VP of sales I froze. JK looked at me and said, "what do you mean?"
Still no one made a sound and I could feel my face burning red. But by now I was in too deep and I had to explain myself.
JK was sitting next to me so I turned and faced him to reenact how I would on a date.
I said, "Can't you just see me half way through the date saying, ya know...I've been feeling you out and reading your body language and I'm just not feeling it. I don't really see this going anywhere and for saving my time and yours maybe we should just end it at this point."
The entire table died laughing. When JK finished laughing he said, "now THAT I will use tomorrow."
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