On honesty and telling it like it is
I met up with one of the salemen in my company on the way to see a client and he was cranky as all get out and so I asked him why he was in such a pissy mood and he said he wasn’t. Later over drinks he told me he was mad at me because he thought I had misquoted his source – I hadn’t, because my own source had replicated the same information. But the fact that a little liquor enabled him to tell me what was honestly bugging him is why he is so endeared to me.
When I got to the LaLa this evening – K was still there and the front glass doors were up – wow – the floor guys are coming tomorrow so the place was cleared out. He said he had gone to the D-Day museum and thought of me when he read a quote by Eisenhower – Eisenhower was talking about how getting along with a lot of different people was essential to leading the troops and the war effort. He spoke of the general in London who was difficult but he said simply a smile would disarm him. K said my smile covered up a lot of sins.