Kim was running another one of her summer buy 1 get 2 hour specials. I had met her at one of the mixers in 2009 and found her to be very pleasant. Last summer when she had her special going on, I emailed her 3 times over 3 months. The first two were ignored, but I got a response to the 3rd. She wasn’t available on the date I wanted, but she said she was available the following day. Fine. I suggested that day and a time, and then never heard from her.
Fast forward to the beginning of this month. The summer special is here again and it again caught my attention. So, I made another attempt. This time she responded fairly quickly and we set the date.
Considering my past history with Kim, I sent an email on the Sunday prior to our Monday appointment to confirm and not waiting until Monday morning. Over the next couple of hours, I get a series of text messages and emails from two different phone numbers. Her flight was delayed and she didn’t think she would be back in time for late Monday afternoon. She suggested moving it to Thursday. I agreed.
On Thursday, she texted me her location. I ended getting up there about 20 minutes early and texted her to say that I was in the area and ready when she was. A couple of minutes later she sent her room number. The hotel was a very old and quaint and overlooking the Hudson. The trouble with old and quaint is that modern conveniences are sometime lacking, such as A/C. There was a ceiling fan, but the two of us could not find the switch for it. Fortunately, the weather that day was not hot and the air was fairly dry.