The secretary here is a middle-aged woman with reddish-tinted hair and big glasses who walks with a slight limp because her spine is broken. Liver is my number-one ally below boss-level.
(For the record, she has trained me to bring her the same McDonald's breakfast every single Friday which I think entitles me to at least some favors.)
She is generally reserved and I have been working on her for a while but today a big breakthrough came. She brought me a cucumber from her garden-- a big, bulbous cucumber. She stepped into my office and waved it cattily between her fingers while giving me Greta Garbo eyes. She swung it in front of my face. "You a vegetarian?" she asked.
I gulped.
Holy shit!
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