I'm not sure Orly thought this one entirely through. She wanted to celebrate her one-year dating Anniversary to Josh, by sending him a gorilla in a tutu to Blackrock in Plainsboro, NJ.
Blackrock is the largest money manager in the world. When you walk into one of their buildings, you'd think you were in Fort Knox, with all the secrecy and all the security. Even the name sounds kind of ominous.
Apparently Orly and Josh met while working out at the gym. He is as tall, young, and tattooed as she is beautiful; a perfect match! However, the info she was giving me was better suited for a private, more intimate setting among friends, not co-workers.
(TMI !)
I kept asking her, "Are you sure it's OK to say this?"
"Oh, yeah, yeah," she replied.
All I'm thinking about is how am I going to get this past security since Orly did not have a contact person on the inside. I figured that the worst-case scenario was that they would have to call Josh down to security and I'd deliver the song there, instead of up on the trading floor, among co-workers.
Sure enough, I walk in the building and I'm immediately confronted by a cadre of retired cops, who now work the security detail for Blackrock. But they were cops with a sense of humor. Instead of calling Josh down, I got a police escort up to Josh. All five of them. It was an escort, because no one wanted to stay behind. They all were eager to see the gorilla in a pink tutu deliver to this huge guy.
When I walked into his office, which was just off of the open trading area, Josh was on a conference call. He figured out was about to happen and managed to jump off of the call. He knew he was trapped and there was little he could do ( he COULD have told me to leave, but I think he was trying to save face in front of his co-workers)
Josh kept his head down the whole time. I'm pretty good at "reading" people, so I'm always very aware of body language. He winced when I mentioned the part about him sending "naughty pictures" to Orly, especially in light of the recent Anthony Weiner sexting scandal. It was clear he was never going to hear the end of it from the guys (and the cops) at Blackrock.
Forget about the two-year dating Anniversary....I'm taking bets on whether or not they're going to celebrate their 13-month dating Anniversary in early August.
On the escort back down to the lobby, one of the security guards said, "You have the best job in the whole freakin' world!".............That I do!
"You put Orly in a fix
When you send her naughty pics
To travel 'round the world, you choose
Where you show everybody your tattoos!"
Kerry
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