January 08, 2006
How I Know My Boss Is Totally Straight
On Thursday, when I had a ride-with (industry speak for vendor riding along with you for the day), I also had about 5 cases of wine at the warehouse that I needed to pick up, so that I could deliver them early on Friday. However, my day was so fully booked that I had to ask a co-worker who lives near me to pick them up when she was down that way. We arranged for me to swing by her house when my day was over.
She called me around noon to let me know that she had my stuff and ask me when I thought my day would be over since she was planning on going to Ikea with a friend. That's all she needed to say to me. I knew I needed to get to her house as close to 5 p.m. as possible but I was worried about getting there in time, since it looked like my day was going to stretch a bit longer than I originally expected. So when I had a lunch appointment that included my boss I tried to get him to pick up the wine for me.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because she has to go to Ikea later and I don't know if I can pick up the wine before she wants to go."
"And that would prevent her from driving down to Renton, how?" he asked, in wonderment.
This coming from a man who is SO metrosexual that people are always assuming he is gay, without even checking. When I tell them about his girlfriend they always ask, "Are you SURE he isn't gay?" The fact that he doesn't think of Ikea as a place where you need as much open car space as possible combined with the fact that I have seen the furniture in his apartment allow me to believe 110% that he is not interested in men. In any way.
Posted by kerewin at January 8, 2006 04:14 PM