Holy Crap!

It is rare I call a cold call sales guy back at work. Even rarer that I let them come in to see me. This sales guy called me yesterday. My first thought as I listened to his phone message was "oh, this guy is good." But he said something that perked my interest so I called him back. Of course, he just happened to be in the area. Told ya he was good. Well he was meeting with one of my counterparts and then he would call and let me know he was getting close. Admittedly he forgot that part. My boss pulled me into an office for my annual review which he wanted to be all serious about and go through and I flipped to the back to find out what the grade was. The grade denotes the raise, and the grade denoted if I got hosed again or made a good decision in coming to work for him. More on that another time, maybe.

I come walking out of that meeting at about 4:30 and there is a pretty cute guy sitting with a counter part and I hear, there she is. I was still talking to my boss and we handled some things before I gave this guy the time of day....good salesman, cute guy or not.

He comes over to my desk, which I also never allow saleman at my desk. He sees all the Wisconsin stuff and says "Are you a Badger?" to which I reply, "Yeah, are you a Badger too?" Since his represents a company with Wisconsin in the name. He said, "No, I'm a Wolverine." I hestitated not in saying, "That's it, you're out here, meetings over." And having a good laugh myself. So I told him my brother went to Michigan and we discuss siblings. (Oh, and by the way, because I know Aileen is wondering, there was a wedding ring.....and I am never never never having anything but a business relationship with any supplier ever again!) Anyway, so then he says, "did you grow up in Wisconsin?" When the conversation goes in this order it always makes me giggle, "No, I'm from Michigan." "Really, where in Michigan?" "Fenton" "No way, I live in Fenton now." Its a small world. He grew up in the next town over, we knew a few of the same people. He told me how much Fenton has changed. He is going to take a picture of the house I grew up in and send it to me.

Weird.

Starts with Goodbye...

I guess it's gonna have to hurt,

I guess I'm gonna have to cry,

And let go of some things I've loved,

To get to the other side,

I guess it's gonna break me down,

Like falling when you try to fly,

It's sad,

but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life,

Starts with goodbye.

I know there's a blue horizon,

Somewhere up ahead,

just waiting for me,

Getting there means leaving things behind,

Sometimes life's so bitter sweet.