I am supposed to be out this Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n
It’s a big work do. There will be about 750 of us ‘staff’ at a black tie ‘end of year and awards dinner’ in a hotel conference centre in west London.<\/p>\n
I don’t know what time dinner will be served, but we’ve been told the bar will be open from 18.30 to 23.30.<\/p>\n
So if I stick with it I need to sort myself out with a monkey suit for Wednesday evening. And if I stay until… erm… 23.00 I might get home by 02.00. And then get up at 05.00 to go to work the next day.<\/p>\n
Hmmmm…<\/p>\n
None of this is very attractive.<\/p>\n
But it might be a shrewd diplomatic move to go, to see and be seen.<\/p>\n
As you might guess from the numbers, it’s just a staff night out; wives, husbands, girlfriends and boyfriends aren’t invited because that would double the already seriously large number.<\/p>\n
The meal, I should imagine, would be served on a production line model with staff running around like worker ants under the burden of many plates.<\/p>\n
I’m secretly dreading it.<\/p>\n
But feel that I should go.<\/p>\n
I just know that they’ll cock up my vegetarian meal order – with 750 folk on the roll I’ll be in the minority and will get pushed to the back of the queue. So instead of cold shoulder I’ll probably be dining on a cold non-meat dish.<\/p>\n
Ho hum.<\/p>\n
I am also supposed to be out next Wednesday evening for the yard Christmas meal. Much prettier, much younger company and no talk about work but much chat about equine-related things.<\/p>\n
Gosh, it’s so hard to compare the qualities of the two evenings!<\/p>\n
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