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14 January 2011
As I write this the Goosebumps have yet not subsided …
The first enquiry came through the internet. Tell me more about your business, how do I go about joining? The next step, I replied would be to set up a no obligation appointment with me as I meet all my clients personally.
Within a minute of sending the response the phone rang. It took me a little while to realise that my client was calling from Greece and even longer for the penny to drop that I was being tasked with finding him a partner; an English speaking South African woman.
I do say that I meet all my clients personally, but short of flying to Greece or him coming out here, I decided to bend my rules. I spent literally hours talking to him on the phone, had him fill out pages of questions and asked for and contacted personal referees. He had written a book and I asked for a copy of the book – a factual expose of the rise and fall of a listed South African company and the part he played in it. The book gave me the final insight I needed to be confident to introduce – I’ll call him Jason.
Helen had never married. Beautiful, vibrant and intelligent with the most beautiful skin and laughing eyes and she was Greek. South African born, but Greek. She was slightly outside Jason’s preferred age range. But as I spoke to her, I felt sure that magic was going to happen.
Jason protested at first. I insisted. Jason, this is so perfect, it is as though it has been dictated by the universe. Flowery language but it is how I felt. After seeing Helen’s picture, Jason agreed to call her.
What will I say, he asked me.
What, Jason, you lost for words? That’s a first.
No, Kate, he protested, I can talk to women in business, but this is …. I don’t know what to say.
Life is business, Jason and the most important business of all. Start off by telling her about this conversation.
I’ll phone you afterwards, Kate and tell you.
No, Jason. Tonight I am exhausted and going to bed, send me an email.
Hi Kate
It’s very- very rare for a bastard like me to send a Thank you message. A Thank you message for something that even in the wildest of all imaginations would be a far fetched dream.
Enough with the syrup.
You were right Kate totally and utterly right. Helen is and not seems to be as is my usual ‘cautious’ expression who I was hoping for. Spontaneous, intellectual, quick, straight to the point without useless blah blah, shy, powerful, eager to live, creative, and if important for her a girl with whom without any what so ever hesitation I would share my life with.
Please, unless Helen has a different view and that’s not a ‘elegant way’ of cornering her, withdraw me from any further intros. I do believe in her and as such I’ll do what ever is necessary to build this relationship in to what I mentioned on my first e-mail to you on 31/12/2010:
‘Dogs will bark. Who cares to listen? …You and I are lords here. We two now will order things well.’
Well I believe that Helen and Jason have a chance to ‘now order things well’ as Lady Macbeth would have said.
Thanks Kate.
Helen’s response was waiting for me too.
Hey Kate
Eureka!
Yes! Yes! Yes!..I echo Jason’s sentiments and would like no further intros. He is forthright, straight down the line, very funny and with an amazing general knowledge and of life-he actually gives me wings to fly. Lady Macbeth was prophetic in her words. As the say in the deep South ‘dem dogs can sure bark but the odering is gonna be good , dahlin.’
So yes, today is the day I can order the universe and rule the world.
And for all you people out there who are waiting for the planets to be aligned before picking up the phone and calling me, the only planet that you need in place is the seventh one.
