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“Hey Les,” Bobby frowned at his friend, “did you get hung up on again?”
Les grinned. “No just the opposite, I think I’m in love.”
“What? You’re supposed to be selling software, not falling in love. Didn’t they explain that to you in training?”
Lester let out a sigh. He starting writing on the call sheet.
“Well,” egged Bobby,” give it up, what started this?”
Les looked at his monitor. “That last phone call.”
Bobby raised his eyebrows. “You need to explain that.”
“It was a girl. I talked to her about the system and she just kept getting me distracted.”
“Now how did she do that? You can’t even see her!”
“She had this southern drawl, and the way she said things, my mind just went blank.”
“Did she notice?”
“Yes, she started laughing at me. Then she said she was glad to see that her salesmen distraction software was working.”
Bobby laughed. “So did you make a sale?”
“I don’t know. I’m not even sure what I was trying to sell her.”
“Lester?” Bobby shook his head and laughed again.
“My mind must have been on auto pilot. The last thing I remember was telling her how much I loved snow mobiling.”
“You like snow mobiles? I didn’t know that.” Bobby raised his eyebrows.
“I didn’t either. I’ve never been on a snow mobile.” Les appeared dazed.
“Are you shitting me?” Bobby swore.
“I wish I was.” Les stared at the monitor screen. “I’m supposed to call her back next Wednesday after her Tech guy gets back from Wisconsin, or something like that.”
“What?” Bobby’s mouth dropped open.
Les hesitated. “Bobby, maybe you better call her next week.”
“Are you serious? Why do you want me to call her?”
“I might get engaged.”
“Wait a minute! Give me that number.” Bobby snatched up the call sheet.
“Are you going to call her now?”
“Well, as your supervisor,” he snorted, “I think I need to do a customer satisfaction survey.”
“What are you talking about? You’re not my supervisor and we don’t do those on the phone.”
“She doesn’t know that.” He started dialing the phone.
Les jumped up and retreated to the break room. He waited and waited, pacing back and forth, before slowly walking back into the call room.
Bobby was sitting with his head in his hands.
“So, uh… what happened?” Les asked.
Bobby looked up at Les. “I told her my dog’s names.”
“But you don’t have any dogs.” Les said grinning.
They both laughed.
“Man,” Bobby sighed, “I see what you mean by distracted. That woman could make a fortune on phone sex.”
“Dumbass, she works at a church.”
Bobby shrugged, then got a glint in his eye. “Oh, by the way Les.”
“Huh?” Les looked at him.
“She told me how much she enjoyed talking to you and said you were very friendly and sweet.”
“Ah shit.” Les blushed, and stared at his shoes. “Say, did she tell you the chicken joke?”
Bobby shook his head, “no she told me a sink joke.”
“A sink joke?” Les looked confused.
What do you do if a sink knocks on your door?”
“Ok, what?”
“You let that sink in.”
They both laughed.
“Wait, wait,” said Lester. “You gotta hear the chicken joke. You see, there were these two rednecks and one of them was carrying a bag. The other one asked what he had in the bag, and the first one said chickens. The other one asked him how many he had, and the first one said if you can guess how many chickens I have in this bag, I’ll give you both of them.
Bobby and Les were laughing hysterically. Suddenly, a red light flashed on Bobby’s monitor.
“You do know that this has all been recorded don’t you?” Tank’s voice boomed from their headsets. “Both of you, Ranger’s office, now! You are having entirely too much fun to be getting any work done.”
Bobby grinned at Lester and covered his microphone as he whispered. “Bring that phone number with you.”
Les had just taken a sip of water and spit it everywhere.
“Maybe we can get the Boss to call her.” Bobby said and winked at Les.
They laughed all the way to Ranger’s office.
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