RE: 3PM, Every Thursday
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This so reminds me of when I was the controller at a courier company (way back in the late 1980's....).
We had a customer who had probably been gorgeous ten years and a thousand bottles of white wine previously. She'd phone up when she needed to book a courier, and answer the door to them in a variety of lacy negligees. But when she booked, she'd sometimes fly into a rage if we told her it would take the courier longer than 15 minutes to get to her.
Then she met Mario. He was, Portuguese, tanned, suave and handsome. Kind of had that Omar Sharif vibe. Once he'd been to her once, she only ever wanted him to do her jobs, even if she had to wait hours for him to become available. He was a good courier, but told us he dreaded going to her....
Oh wow, this is hilarious. Poor Mario! 😄 Though suave, it seems he got more than he bargained for. And the woman is a piece of work! I wonder what Daniel would say if he were telling this story. Could it be the reason he quit his job? I'd like to think Mariam is cool but maybe came off too strong. Hehe.
It's interesting to know that real life stories reflect the fictional sometimes, or is it the other way round? Thanks so much for your visit and comment on this story.
The courier business back then was a crazy, crazy world ! Most of the stories were a product of their time and probably wouldn't make so much sense in this time when mobile phones and instant communication are just part of life.
But some of what happened was bonkers - sometimes sad, often hilarious, and quite often both. It was a business full of real characters, eccentrics, broken people and rebels.
I'll have to try to post more of the crazy stuff that happened, but a lot of it only works told face to face in the voices and mannerisms of the people that were there.