{"id":563,"date":"2005-10-24T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=563"},"modified":"2005-10-24T07:21:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T12:21:00","slug":"one-upping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"One-Upping"},"content":{"rendered":"

My blog (gladly) got discovered by Heidi<\/a> a while back, and because we used to work together, we have a bond no Hurricane Wilma can break. I haven’t seen her in a few years, in fact – and a fact that will hopefully change soon. After all, when you work with kindred spirits in this advertising business, your connections are forged like airline titanium, or ten-year-old blood-brother boys with pocketknives. It’s a connection not even your spouse can crack, unless they, too, are employed in the Evil Empire. All you have to say is, “Motherfucker (client) (supervisor) (project)” and it’s as though a large gong in a far-off land has been struck, one that we were trained in our cribs to recognize when The Time Comes. You just Get It. I realize this isn’t inherent to advertising, either – whatever particular industry you’re in, the common pitfalls, hilarity and issues interweave you together with people you might not have ordinarily known or shared experiences with.<\/p>\n

So that brings me to my point, which is that Ms. Heidi posted a quick entry titled, “I know someone who\u2019s been to a prostitute.” And then, all she said was, “Oh, come on people, I didn\u2019t get details.” We-he-he-ELL, pardon me for taking off my hat & stayin’ a while, but curl up your feet & take a listen to MY story. For I know someone who’s been to a prostitute. At least a couple of ’em, in fact. The man in question & I used to work together, and there were many happy hours-turned-into-evenings with our crew & I heard a lot of funny stories in my tour of duty at that employer. In fact, he was on a work-related trip in San Francisco, where he availed himself of the services from “the most beautiful woman he’d ever met”. Yeah, I rolled my eyes, too. You can think “Pretty Woman” and romanticize the working-girl industry, but then I give you THIS story, from the same guy: He also availed himself of a little :cough: oral pleasure from a Working Girl over on Independence Avenue. He extolled her “skills”, but then revealed this gem: “I’m not sure now if she was a man or a woman. I was really, really drunk.” I absolutely loved to give him shit about THAT one. <\/p>\n

Thankfully, he’s quit drinking, been sober for several years now, and presumably, no longer feeling the need to pay for services rendered. If not, I hope that at least now he can spot the drag queens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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