I'm not a tremendously social monkey. I tend to be pretty selective about the humans I want to hang out with or not. I'm also not really into meetings. I generally think that most meetings don't really need to be longer than 20 minutes and anything more is just hot air and smoke.
So, I thought I was in hell when I had a long, long meeting today. Some nonsense for local business "leaders." Ha.
It started off badly enough with participants having assigned seats. What are we, school children? Assigned seats? Puh-uh-leeze. And, then I find that I am seated around folks I don't know particularly well. I've seen them before at business leader type meetings, but have never held a conversation with them . . . and there was at least one complete stranger in my immediate surroundings.
But, what had me rubbing my own eye sockets was the fact that the woman sitting across from me kept calling me "Linda" although in front of me was a table card with my name clearly printed on it.
But, I did resist the urge to tell her that this meeting . . . sitting here with you . . . having you repeatedly call me Linda . . . this is my idea of hell. I didn't say that. But I did treat myself to a milkshake and bad taxidermy once I got back to the office
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