Tammi's World

And I'm Damned Proud of It!!

How to win friends and intimidate everyone else.

I should teach a seminar on that.

Let's see if I can explain.

First - have you been over and seen the picture at Sgt. Hook's for his caption contest this week? Get on over there and check it out. If you don't this post will make NO SENSE at all,

I love this photo. I downloaded it to my laptop, printed it out, framed it and have it hanging in my office where I can see it all day. Seriously - I love this pic.

Anyway - I have several photos that I rotate as the wallpaper on the desktop of my laptop. This is the choice for this week.

Today we had a "dry run" on the presentations for next week. My boss asked that I bring my laptop to run everything on.

So......we're all sitting around - sales and our "designer" marketing group. These are a bunch of artists and such (you see where I'm goin'?) that all fit the "liberal artist" labels very well.

I fire up the laptop and we get the projector running and that photo pops up, larger than life. I thought it was fantastic. You could have heard a pin drop in there. Now please don't think they were were nasty. Not at all. I think the best way to describe it was shocked. Postively shocked. I don't know why, but that was the feelin' they gave.

They're lookin' at the photo, then lookin' at me. The photo, then me.

Tammi: What? Isn't that a great picture??? I think it was taken in Iraq recently.

Boss: Well folks, I think it's pretty clear - we had better be nice to Tammi. While those Jersey boys may "have a guy" Tammi obviously has us all out gunned.

Everyone laughed and some jokes were made about using that photo as the backdrop during my "rules and regulations" part of the presentation. I think that would rock!

But I did notice, folks were holding doors for me the rest of the day. And I swear I heard someone call me ma'am.

Posted by Tammi at September 28, 2006 05:10 AM | TrackBack