A young advertising sales person working on an international
magazine felt a little nervous when she went to present to a prospective
client in Sweden.
Fortunately, the chap was avuncular and smiled broadly as he showed her
into the glass-walled boardroom. Our heroine started her pitch, vaguely
aware that the room felt a little chilly.
’I was talking away but out of the corner of my eye I noticed that
people walking past on the other side of the glass wall were stopping to
look at me and grinning,’ she relates. ’I couldn’t quite work out what
was going on.’
Eventually she finished the pitch and extracted a promise from the
prospective client that he would call her. ’He followed me out into
reception and shook my hand. Then he said: ’I don’t quite know how to
put this - but do you know your dress is undone?’
’I realised with a sudden chill that the back of my dress was gaping
open - right down to my knickers. The only thing holding it in place was
a small hook and eye at the top. I looked at him and said: ’Now I’ve
given you such a treat, you’ll have to book.’’
Not surprisingly, perhaps, the chap concerned became one of her most
loyal clients.
