Misty Knight
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- May 23, 2003
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Caught by a Winter Storm (closed for Misty Knight and Wicked Python)
'Men really piss me off!" I announce over the car radio, which was fading in and out anyway. I reached over and switched it off angrily. "Who needs 'em!"
I am Madison Autry and at 44, I own one of the most successful advertising businesses in the pacific northwest. Two satellite offices, one in western Canada and one in midwest states. But simply because my most profitable client, an old man in his 80's is suddenly feeling that a "young" woman can't handle his company's needs, I have to bring in a male partner. Old men look at a 5'3" sandy brown hair petite woman as a "little girl", someone needing the stronger leadership of a man. I want to slap the old gent and ask him why he brought his business to me in the first place. But all I manage to do is flash my green eyes and bite my bottom lip. So I need a man for window dressing only. Or I could tell the old client to take a hike. But basically being greedy, I don't want 71.3% of my business taking a hike with him. So the search is on for male partner. Someone I can put in a corner office and let him deal with the old man on a very limited and closely watched basis.
I have interviewed possible business partners until I could scream. Why do men think they know everything about running a successful firm? Hell, they can't even ring the john consistently and I am supposed to trust them with MY business? Fuck that!
"Well at least a long break!" I sound relieved as I tell my four wheel-drive the story. Too late to catch flights home for Christmas. So I will go where I can most relax - my small beautiful log home in western Canada. Nothing to do between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day. I don't have to get out of my warm pjs. Just laze and sleep and read and catch up on the newest crop of movies. Plenty of wine, food and supplies in the car.
MY one call to the property superintendent guaranteed me that there are plenty of supplies and more than ample fuel for the generator in case of power outages. He sounded strange when I said I was driving up. Probably thought me too feminine to negotiate heavy snow and ice conditions. MEN! What are they good for? Besides mowing grass in summer, shoveling snow off the walk ways in winter, not much.
The snow is heavy and visibility no more than five feet in front of me when the deer leaped in front of me. I should have hit the bastard but I swerved. Landed in the snow drift. Luckily not far from my cabin. A couple or three trips and I can have everything inside the cabin and on the way to my first good drunk in ages.
My first load is the largest. I figured I would tire with each consecutive trip, so I make the most of the first hike. Nearly dark when I unlock the door and dump my armloads of stuff in the kitchen. As I head back towards the front door, a stranger blocks me, and I jump. I admit it. Typical female reaction. But I cover my surprise nicely by yelling at him "Who the hell are you?"
Of course, I know the answer before I have my question asked. I had forgotten I agreed to lease this cabin starting around mid-November until spring. But I held my ground admirably and repeated louder "Who the hell are you?" Maybe I could bully him and he'd leave!. I really wanted this time away from the city. And not another man to deal with. Jeeze, I was really begin to hate men. All men, not just 80 year olds but all men. They were in a conspiracy to keep women in their place.
He was rubbing sleep out of his eyes and so I repeated even louder "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?"
'Men really piss me off!" I announce over the car radio, which was fading in and out anyway. I reached over and switched it off angrily. "Who needs 'em!"
I am Madison Autry and at 44, I own one of the most successful advertising businesses in the pacific northwest. Two satellite offices, one in western Canada and one in midwest states. But simply because my most profitable client, an old man in his 80's is suddenly feeling that a "young" woman can't handle his company's needs, I have to bring in a male partner. Old men look at a 5'3" sandy brown hair petite woman as a "little girl", someone needing the stronger leadership of a man. I want to slap the old gent and ask him why he brought his business to me in the first place. But all I manage to do is flash my green eyes and bite my bottom lip. So I need a man for window dressing only. Or I could tell the old client to take a hike. But basically being greedy, I don't want 71.3% of my business taking a hike with him. So the search is on for male partner. Someone I can put in a corner office and let him deal with the old man on a very limited and closely watched basis.
I have interviewed possible business partners until I could scream. Why do men think they know everything about running a successful firm? Hell, they can't even ring the john consistently and I am supposed to trust them with MY business? Fuck that!
"Well at least a long break!" I sound relieved as I tell my four wheel-drive the story. Too late to catch flights home for Christmas. So I will go where I can most relax - my small beautiful log home in western Canada. Nothing to do between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day. I don't have to get out of my warm pjs. Just laze and sleep and read and catch up on the newest crop of movies. Plenty of wine, food and supplies in the car.
MY one call to the property superintendent guaranteed me that there are plenty of supplies and more than ample fuel for the generator in case of power outages. He sounded strange when I said I was driving up. Probably thought me too feminine to negotiate heavy snow and ice conditions. MEN! What are they good for? Besides mowing grass in summer, shoveling snow off the walk ways in winter, not much.
The snow is heavy and visibility no more than five feet in front of me when the deer leaped in front of me. I should have hit the bastard but I swerved. Landed in the snow drift. Luckily not far from my cabin. A couple or three trips and I can have everything inside the cabin and on the way to my first good drunk in ages.
My first load is the largest. I figured I would tire with each consecutive trip, so I make the most of the first hike. Nearly dark when I unlock the door and dump my armloads of stuff in the kitchen. As I head back towards the front door, a stranger blocks me, and I jump. I admit it. Typical female reaction. But I cover my surprise nicely by yelling at him "Who the hell are you?"
Of course, I know the answer before I have my question asked. I had forgotten I agreed to lease this cabin starting around mid-November until spring. But I held my ground admirably and repeated louder "Who the hell are you?" Maybe I could bully him and he'd leave!. I really wanted this time away from the city. And not another man to deal with. Jeeze, I was really begin to hate men. All men, not just 80 year olds but all men. They were in a conspiracy to keep women in their place.
He was rubbing sleep out of his eyes and so I repeated even louder "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?"
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