Tammi's World

My Impression

I don't think I'll be invited back to NYC anytime soon.

Seriously.

Oh, everything started out just fine. Got to the hotel, hunkered down and ordered room service. Mistake number 1. The waiter was so enthralled with the football game he forgot to open my soda. Usually not an issue, except kinda hard to travel with bottle openers on the plane anymore. So I had to call and have them come back and open it for me. Yeah - Miss Low Maintenance my ass.

Then this morning. I woke early. Sweet. I could just chill as my rep wasn't supposed to pick me up until 9:15. A luxurious start to my morning. Can I tell you he was an hour and 15 minutes early? Yeah, ouch.

Got to the call, and well, let's just say he'll be taking my advice from now on. I did what he wanted, set things up according to what he requested. Now, I need to go home and finish what I originally started to do and get it all expressed out. Not something that makes me terribly happy. I have another trip to plan for - don't really have time to do all that extra stuff.

I was amazed at how casual the dress was, even given the fact that it's Halloween. I was NOT gonna show up in anything other than a suit. Period. Hell - NYC, Broadway, Major Retailer. Yeah, I'm wearin' a suit. Other vendors were sitting in the lobby in blue jeans. Flannels. Tennis shoes. I was floored. It just seemed so disrespectful. Hell, I was upset because I chipped my nail polish this morning - at least I pressed my suit. Holy Crap.

Then we head out of the city into Queens. Yes, I was actually in Queens. To be honest that was crackin' me up more than the fact that I was right by Times Square last night. Don't know why, but I just thought that was great.

Meet with a discount distributor. The man knows how to make money, and he's a tough cookie. Luckily, he liked me. Even after I accidently stepped "in it". Yeah, during our conversation me, miss Y'all, let's out with a "cuts like buttah" reference. The room got very very quiet. I could have died. Thank GOODNESS he just laughed and told me how funny I am. Yeah, funny girl, that's me. NOT.

Dinner was nice. And now I'm getting ready to settle in, check a few blogs and sleep. Another early morning with a distributor in Long Island then some store visits and a flight back home.

I will tell you, to properly experience this place you really shouldn't travel alone. Strangers don't really care if you think something is beyond cool or not - I'm just sayin'......

Posted by Tammi at October 31, 2006 08:58 PM | TrackBack