The Eternal Mr. Flame

From the corner of my eye I seen an exhilarated GQ headed toward my desk with a mysterious dark haired stranger.

"Hi Ladies, this is Mr. Flame. He's here from our corporate office," I could tell they had just come inside, the smell of the frigid Arctic air was thick. GQ was bundled inside a bright red goose down parka, several little feathers were beginning to work themselves free at the seams.

"Hi, nice to meet you," I smiled, laughing inwardly, Mr. Flame couldn't have picked a worse time to travel to the frozen tundra. Coming from Florida, this had to have been a shock to his system.

"Nice to meet you guys," Mr. Flame smiled a devilish womanizing smile, too bad his nose was cherry red from standing outside in the smoke shack. Seriously unprepared for the weather, Mr. Flame stood before us in a thin black leather jacket and loafers.

Anyone who has had the opportunity to work with a gay man can instantly recognize when he is feeling attracted to a man. In GQ's situation, it's visibly obvious.

There stood GQ, smiling from ear to ear, love struck look in his eye, showing off Mr. Flame like he is a prize to the world. I could almost hear his inner mind clicking with thoughts of Mr. Flame. Every sentence spoken from that point forward will reference the object of their infatuation, every situation experienced will NEED to involve that object of infatuation.

I hate to say it, but, it's very much like a woman's reaction.

In this situation, however, the physical attraction will be one sided. Mr. Flame is very heterosexual, from what I understand, and from what experiences GQ has passed along to me.

Let's just say, when GQ explained how he and Mr. Flame had gone to the bar to check out women's tits and find some 'action', I surmised 2 things.

• GQ must be totally infatuated if he's willing to peruse a bar to look at 'racks' and seek out 'action'
• Mr. Flame must be a horn dog in search of a bitch in heat if he's that willing to go bar hopping, gay man in tow, looking for 'action'

I do have to wonder if Mr. Flame is getting a kick out of the attention he receives from GQ......

On a different note, the production floor as I know it will be undergoing a lot of changes in the days to come. With the sale of my company has come the expected worry and anticipation of new bosses, new rules, new everything. It seems this week is a week where everything will be culminating in the form of a quarterly SBR.

The upper crust are on pins and needles, each one of them worried about the visit from the 'new owners'.

I can't help but wonder what these people will think when they see Spicegirl for the first time, with the grey stripe in her unkempt hair and the pink corduroy pants, or The Director of Operations with his leopard print hair and dry personality.

Only time will tell.

But, I do know one thing, each and every one of them is afraid for their jobs, all anticipating the arrival of the 'new owners' is a beginning of an end.