Skipping Christmas
“The bar opened at precisely eleven forty-five—three bars actually—and soon thereafter things got sloppy. Stanley Wiley would be the first to get smashed—he’d blame it on the loaded eggnog—and he’d stand on a box at the end of the conference table and deliver the same speech he’d given a week earlier at the black-tie Christmas dinner. Then they’d present him with a gift, a shotgun or a new sand wedge or some other useless souvenir that he’d practically cry over, then quietly give to a client mon...ths later. There’d be other gifts, some speeches and gags, and a song or two as the booze flowed. Two male strippers appeared one year, and, to the beat of a howling boom box, disrobed down to their leopard thongs while the men ran for cover and the secretaries squealed with delight. Dox, Luther’s secretary, had squealed the loudest and still had photos of the boys. In a memo, Stanley had banned future strippers.By five, some of the most starched and staid accountants at Wiley & Beck would be groping or attempting to grope some of the homeliest secretaries.MoreLess
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