I'm meeting mine for lunch week after next. Start new contract on Monday, so she's treating me to lunch after a week to check I'm settling in OK...
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have you met your agent?
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I've met mine on numerous occasions, and she also always stands for lunch at a decent restaurant (as in £50 per head decent).
And before you ask, cos I know you're going to, yes she has reasonably large norks...Comment
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Insist on lunch at least once per contract, all afternoon..."See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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I disagree on this point, even though I'm probably in a minority of 1. He is your customer. You are selling to him. You should be entertaining him, not the other way around.Originally posted by gingerjedi View PostI've met mine about 5 times and he's bought lunch on every occasion... you say you bought him a pint? Pimps should be looking after their whores not the other way round.
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Mine sounded quite mature on the phone but when I met him in the boozer looked about 12, I was almost at the point of asking him if he wanted a coke or an orange rather than a pint.Some people are like slinkys, totally pointless but the thought of pushing them down a flight of stairs never fails to put a smile on your face.Comment
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Surely you are giving him revenue so he (she?) should pay ... ?Originally posted by thunderlizard View PostI disagree on this point, even though I'm probably in a minority of 1. He is your customer. You are selling to him. You should be entertaining him, not the other way around.How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't thinkComment
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Met mine a few times, small sexy Thai woman (except I can't actually say here first name!) Not a bag agency, pay on time, got invited to their BBQ in summer and they put on a Christmas do for us in a nice place in Stuttgart.“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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I've met a couple of mine (not current one though - yet).
They usually buy (coffee, pint, lunch) - I've even had a bottle of Krug off one of them.
hmmmmm - That's still in the wine rack
Si posse, recte, si non, quocumque modo remComment
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Meeting mine today for coffee - not enough time for lunch unfortunately.
Sounds v. posh on the phone and has an improbable double-barrelled name.Comment
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