call_me_chas (call_me_chas) wrote in morningstar_mnr, @ 2008-04-09 18:18:00 |
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Entry tags: | ashley, chas, deacon, johanna |
290 Gallery, Charlie OTA
Charlie had been humming that morning until he opened his mail and the invoice he found there from a very respected firm of gallery outfitters cause him to squirt his coffee through his nose.
Coughing he rang Marian Haycock and, as politely as he could manage, demanded to know why he had had an invoice for $22,000 for new lights and associated labour.
"Oh but when I called the person I spoke to said that you had okayed the refurbishment," Marion said sweetly. "I would NEVER have gone ahead without your authorisation."
A brisk discussion ensued during which Charlie demanded to know exactly WHo had said that and Marion said she would prefer not to say since from the tone of his voice, she would rather not be responsible for any of his staff being fired.
Incensed both at that implication and the necessity of paying a bill that threw his carefully balanced commitments all to buggery, Charlie ended the call abruptly, put his head in his hands for a moment then abandoned his office to go and walk around the gallery and try to recover his equilibrium by looking at art.