Another
thing about me, I love doing anything that’s uncommon or not part of the plan
at work because I like change. I also like to think that life isn’t boring, and
when you get out of the same ol’ same ol’, boredom disappears - poof! -- like a
cockroach when you turn on the lights.
As it
happened, some bosses had interesting requests as far as errands. A few asked
if I wouldn’t mind picking up their lunch orders if I was going out -- that was
well and fine. One or two asked if I could fetch their shirts from the
cleaner’s down the street. That was cool, too.
The
most interesting errand -- since this was pre-Ticketmaster -- was to pick up
some concert tickets for my groovy divorced older guy boss, Merv Weiner, who
was a Sr. VP in M&A at Bristol Myers-Squibb. The concert: Leonard Cohen Live! at the Felt Forum.
Everybody Knows he’s my man and so, I was more than happy to go in person to
get tix for Merv because I also picked some up for my boyfriend and me.
Of
course, I’d not have been as ecstatic if he asked me to get tickets for Billy
Joel or somebody I loathed. . .but the trip outside the office to do just about
anything other than work at a desk between 9 and 5 was kinda heavenly.
So,
thank you, Merv -- and thanks, Len, for an awesome concert way back when at the
Felt Forum. That was where I bumped into Allen Ginsberg and discussed our
favorite songs off Cohen’s I’m Your Man
album. He said to me, “I like that Manhattan song. And how’s Tommy (Goodkind --
from the Squares) doing?”!
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