today was my first opportunity in waaaaaaaay too long to use my all time favorite Instant Shine again. years back i posted a few threads here about my experience with IS and now, with all this time between uses, i get more results straight out of the box. As we are now heading into monsoon season, skies are for the most part gray today and there has been a threat of rain here all day so everyone was for the most part a bit grumpy and feeling rushed as we all have to get a bit wet on the way from the car to the office…
In my office I supervise 4 mid level managers (all thai girls 
) and as i get to sit very near to each of them, i thought i would share a bit of Androtics magic with them today, as I have been in this position for about 8 months now this is their first exposure ever to IS.
3 sprays of IS later (1 to throat, 1/2 to each side of neck, 1/2 to the back of each hand to prevent rubbing off on desk or keyboard) and the fun begins…
To start, all day long there is a parade of under-employed thais walking past my glass front doors, slipping their adverts under etc. This is nothing special and certainly nothing to get excited about. Within 20 minutes of application we get another advert slid under the door and our guest services manager jumps out of her seat shouting “Chopping!” (that is shopping to those of you in the west) and this is completely out of character for her, she is rather large for a thai girl and very modest, prefering to punch in and punch out.
Immediately after she gets the advert, one of our accountants pushes away from her desk and practically dances up to meet her and they start jabbering away in thai a bit too quickly for me to understand but i did pick out the words for wedding, parties, good life etc. now, neither of these two women have boyfriends and certainly don’t have any marriage prospects lined up that i know of.
If you had seen the way they held hands and waltzed around the table in the foyer you would have thought they just won the lottery. I certainly have never seen this behavior in the office before, neither have i seen it at any of the company parties we throw and alcohol is involved. Thais are quite modest people so this would have been a complete shock to me if i didn’t know something was up 
Just came back from lunch now and had to stop in at the opticians for some special eye drops and as i am driving up i see the front door open and each of the three employees (2 female 1 male) gathered just inside the door giving off the impression of typical standard boredom. they recognize me instantly as i have to buy my eye drops once per week and the manager (an astoundingly beautiful thai woman) immediately steps up to help me as i walk through the door. that much isn’t unusual, however as we walk back together to the counter i made sure to walk in front of her and she started talking about the last time i was in the shop the power was out also and went on to say that if the power was out next time i come in, she will close up and we’ll go out for drinks! This was completely out of her normal demeanor, she is a very respectable educated professional woman and while i have been laying the foundation for some extra curricular activities for quite some time now i think the fact that there have always been two others in her office that have kept her modesty in check.
she didn’t bother to ask what i needed, she took the box of eye drops off of the shelf, opened it up and removed the cap and told me (yes, told me) to sit down and when i did she put her hand on my chin, tilted my head back ever so gently and put a drop in each eye. she did this entirely on her own, and with the other two employees standing there smiling as they watched.
pleasant, very pleasant actually for a rainy day.
when and if Androtics goes public, i want in on the IPO MHarris!!!