CARL

Standing before the podium was my job, but what was even more of my job was making sure all these people were listening and willing to buy all that I was putting on the tables. They had to be.

Our new products just launched. Not a product in the actual sense, but the amount of turnout the company was getting proved that I could still get things done. I wasn't as useless after all, although I'd be doubting that, all thanks to a certain woman whose face I happened to be seeing ...