Message #1304

[andrea843]

not the strangest, but certainly the most embarassing for me it was the President's Office.  A few years ago, I was an advocate, involved in a large group of women, and I had written to Mrs. Clinton about a specific issue.  It became the office joke, "we'll take care of it when we hear from Hillary".



I picked up the phone one day to hear: "this is so and so secretary to Mrs. Clinton, would you please hold for her?"



My immediate response, "come on you guys, this isn't funny!"



Hers: "no really, this is the white house"



Mine: "Yeah RIGHT! You guys are really getting on my last nerve, I KNOW we'll hear from her"



Hers:  " Uhh you ARE hearing from her, but she has very limited time which is rapidly ticking away.  Dear let me give you my number and you can call us back and verify that I am in fact calling from the White House"



And she was.



 I spent so much time apologizing to the appointments secretary it cut into my phone time with the object of the call.  Sheesh.