I’m a Booth Babe
MTM is a busy man these days. He is in Denver, representing a project at the Urban Land Institute Conference. Because I’m in the throes of editing, I decided to tag along. A change of scenery often sets my creative juices alight.
And, I miss MTM when he’s gone.
After our flight was cancelled on Wednesday night, I suddenly wasn’t so enamored with the romance of the trip.
MTM: They re-booked us. 6:30am flight. Means getting up at 4.
ME: AM? 4? AM?
MTM: Yes.
ME: Only crazy people like Lou Mello get up at that ungodly hour.
Our connection in Atlanta was 35 minutes. Thirty-five freaking minutes to get from one plane to another, flying an airline (ahem, Delta) that seldom runs on time. We checked all of MTM’s booth supplies.
Except for a slim box of drawings.
MTM: Because, if the drawings don’t make it, I might as well not go at all.
ME: How in the world can our bags get from plane to plane in a half hour? It’s not possible.
MTM: We’ll see. If they don’t, you can always be my booth babe.
ME: ?!?!?!?!?!?! Huh?!?!?!?
MTM: Yeah. You can stand in the booth and hold the drawings.
ME: Right. I’m SURE all those randy developer men will FLOCK to the booth because I’m standing there, holding the drawings. I love you, Dear, but I’m at least a decade too old for all that.
MTM: You could hold them in front of you. A certain way……
ME: WHAT are you TRYING to SAY? That I should hold the drawings in front of me, naked or something?
MTM: Um -
ME: What a preposterous notion! People would run screaming from the building.
MTM: Ah -
ME: I would be arrested. YOU would be arrested as my pimp, causing you to be fired from your job.
MTM: Andra -
ME: Nobody would even want to SEE that. I’m not some sort of hooker-ish Booth Babe!
MTM: What I meant was that you could hold the drawings……..while I get them ready to hang.
As the book by Julie Strain is titled, “It’s Only Art If It’s Well Hung”! Check it out… http://www.amazon.com/Its-Only-Art-Well-Hung/dp/1882931173
But I digress. Discussion of booth-babes will do that too me. Remind me to tell you the story of me and a bunch of booth-babes back in the good old days of Comdex. Can’t tell it hear, for reason that I can’t tell either, but it is a pretty good story! God I miss the money days of the IT bubble.
And, by the way, plenty of those architect would love to see you holding up the blue prints. They would be entranced by you. Especially if you holding a firm grip on MTM’s special pens at the same time.
I’m sure you followed the link on the words ‘booth babe.’ Those ladies are doing the true deal.
Excellent. Being given the news of a 4am “get up” is enough to scramble the brains of any booth babe:)
4am scrambles my brain any day of the week, Roger. I am not a morning person…..unlike SOME people here. (See below.)
hilarious
I don’t know how MTM puts up with me, Fiona.
4 am is a little late for me, I’m already at the gym and on the treadmill by 4 am. Yes, I am a crazy person, just need more hours in the day.
Now, as to the booth babe concept, the Shadow Ninja was merely attempting to gain favor with the arki-tekky types and you would make the perfect easel. Best I not say more about the nature of easels.
You are a crazy person, Lou.
Do you honestly think I could stand still enough to be an easel? I mean, you KNOW me, Lou.
I’m with Lou…I like getting up early. I’m at work by 4:45 am, but I’m not up before 4:00 am and my time at the gym is from Noon to 2:00 pm. Thanks for the giggle Andra – I was visualizing you attempting to hide behind the drawings while MTM attempted to hang them.
I always wondered how you commented so early, when you are in Idaho, time zones behind me.
I just finished reading a book that went through Idaho. Research for the novel I am currently writing. Unfortunately, none of my book is set there, but one of the characters had a connection before the book starts.
Fun! Hope you both have some between work and hanging things…and greeting folks.
I hope I can sit there and get some writing done. I am behind.
I love your “conversations” Andra. Might be fun being an easel.
I would never be able to be still enough, Penny.
Haha! Good recovery MTM! So, did the pics make it?
Everything made it. We were shocked.
Loved the conversation and the ” tongue in cheek” possibilities.
Shakti
Tongue in cheek is a thing I love.
I have a new request…could you start recording these conversations? The two of you could do stand up! You’d be an adorable “Gracie Allen.” oxo
Ha. MTM is almost as bad as Dad. I don’t know how well he would cooperate with being recorded. He can’t stand to watch himself when he is on the news.
Ha ha! We watched a travel show which included a segment about a nudist RV park in Kissimee FL. Most of the naked people in it were at least a few decades past their prime.
Not appealing at all.
Nudist colonies tend to be that way, don’t they?
Doesn’t being a booth babe require a costume of some sort? I think a costume is called for. (Or maybe I’ve just heard too much about ComicCon.)
I wore professional clothes, so I was undecidedly NOT a babe.