Mr. Commitment by Mike Gayle

Author:Mike Gayle [Gayle, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, humour, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 0340718269
Publisher: Broadway
Published: 1999-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Dear Ben,

This letter came for you on Friday. I thought it might be important so I’ve sent it on. Hope everything’s okay with you. Remember, if you need anything at all I’m always here.

All my love,

Mum

I looked inside the large envelope and fished out a smaller one. It was postmarked London and the address was written in a masculine scrawl. I opened it. Read it. Reread it. Looked out of the window. Stared at it again for a bit longer. Screwed it up into a tight ball and got off the bus.

The office where Mel worked was a hive of activity. Telephones rang every thirty seconds and were answered by teams of people sitting at shiny desks on shiny chairs surrounded by shiny potted palms. It was simply the grooviest office I’d ever been in and exactly the sort of place I’d expect to find the advertising sales arm of a TV company. In the two years Mel had been here she’d managed to smash her way through every glass ceiling they had, to become one of their top account managers.

Standing at the reception I waited patiently for the flame-haired receptionist to finish flicking through her copy of Hello! so that I could make my presence known. Just as I’d decided that my being here was an extremely bad idea and that I should go, she looked up from pictures of the Spanish royal family and said serenely, “It’s like a madhouse in here today. How can I help you?”

“I’d like to speak to Ms. Benson.”

“Do you have an appointment?”

“No, I’m sorry I haven’t.”

“Which company are you from?”

“I’m not from a company.”

She picked up her phone, and looked up at me expectantly. “Who shall I say is here to see her?”

“Tell her it’s the man who used to make milk come out of her nose.”

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