Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
Hosted by Denise, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.
Prompt word:
ECHO
“Something tells me you’re bound for the Windy City; you want I should book you a flight or will Ms. Clarieaux send one of her private brooms?”
The key to a good administrative assistant is a facility for extrapolation; I mean Hazel could have suggested that returning to Harvard and enrolling in their Divinity School might be useful in dealing with the Woman in Chicago, but she didn’t and she had a look in her eyes that made me realize the key to being a good boss is to stay focused.
“Yeah, no, I think you should handle my travel arrangements; of course the beauty part of working for Lou is not worrying about expenses, he’s never been stingy when it concerns family… blood, not crime; speaking of Ivy League, I think I need to pay my favorite Chair of the Department of Semiotics and Advanced Anthropology a visit first.”
“You do know, they have this thing called a telephone; I hear you can even see the person you are talking to, if you have the right connections, though the occasional echo can be annoying…” Hazel likes to kid me.
“Nah, with a topic being secret societies, death squads and waging a war against patriarchy down through the history of Man, I like to be able to get ‘hands on’.”
Hazel had a laugh that, if they hadn’t invented sex, women would still be in a position to get men hooked and willing to do anything for them, at least those who could laugh like her.
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I’m not sure there’s any teaching anywhere, Divinity School or otherwise, to prepare someone for dealing with the lady in Chicago.
lol this is true
The key to being a good boss is to stay focused ….and FAIR.
and yet, so many surrender this for the illusion of gaining an edge on people
I’m still hooked about getting a private broom – a nice strong and well-groomed one. I’m assuming it’s a broomstick, of course!
G-850 of floor sweepers! lol
Hazel has a talent for conveying her concerns to/for her boss without actually coming right out and saying it. “And the beauty part”, as Lou might say, is Ian hears her just the same.
Had to crack a smile at Ian’s last line. He totally lucked out when Hazel showed up.
(she’s not going to relax until he’s back from Chicago)
ikr?
The travel by broom also made me laugh, Thank you
I like Hazel’s suggestion that he take a private broom.
I’d travel on an Uber Broom. You’ve left me smiling from ear to … there!
ba…rum…bump!
(tip of the hat to your mad skills at being punny*)
*yeah, near cringe-worthy effort… though I gotta say, it’s partially your fault. puns are like poetry (at least haiku for us rudimentary sorts) you see it well done it looks like fun (and easy (especially puns ’cause, I mean, it’s usually a matter of swapping out a single letter or two or maybe a phoneme) serially! how hard can that be?
The room heating up, here? 🤣
almost… (the thing with certain characters in a story, as much as in life) sometimes the dynamic between two people can be all smoke (but fun smoke)… (In Doctrine terms: a scott and a clark have this kind of potential dynamic)
Sometimes an all-out fire snuffs the mood completely.
“ Yeah, no, I think …” this is an amazing attention to detail that nearly everyone says while their brain sorts the detail. Nicely done. And a fantastic Six, btw
ikr?*
*which, in turn, is one of my favorite acronyms or anagram or whatever… perfect statement