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I was asked to interview my husband's potential secretary. Reluctant I was, but I got dressed and did it. Using his office and his chair. It was much too cumbersome for me. I asked the third question and leaned back. WHAM! My head and back were on the floor. His executive chair had fallen over, and my feet were in the air. I was wearing a suit with a skirt! I crawled around and stood up, straightened myself. I said "You are hired". Her face could surely have been no more red than mine was. Her eyes bugged out. She began to thank me profusely. I found out later I had probably made a mistake. She could only type 17 words a minute. I type 85 words a minute, so I ended up doing all the work. After we became friends I took her cat to raise. I loaned her money, we became confidants. I finally brought up the chair incident during a lunch. She looked at me and we both began to laugh. We laughed until we were crying; we were wailing now. My husband had to ask us to calm down, but we couldn’t.

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Date: 1/12/2022 5:35:00 PM
That must have been the world's record employee interview for a secretarial position in some book. Surely! I'm just glad you didn't break your neck in that calamity!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 1/12/2022 11:00:00 PM
I cannot believe that neither one of us laughed.
Date: 1/11/2022 6:03:00 PM
17 wpm Secretary. You were and are 5X as fast. I guess that makes you an Elite Executive Secretary. Whoosh. Great interview, Caren! ~ gw
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 1/12/2022 11:02:00 PM
I am the fastest typist I know - I had the meanest typing teacher in the world. She lied and said I did not do 33 assignments because she thought I "picked on my twin" so I spent 8 nights afterschool retyping them. Then the WITCH made a mistake and graded and handed back both sets, so my mother went to the school board to talk about it. She had to take a chill pill first. This teacher had been the meanest teacher she had ever had too, and she despised my mother. Nothing happened to the witch.

Book: Shattered Sighs