Some of you know that I occasionally moderate focus groups for my job. In the past few months, I organized and lead 14 groups all over LA County, culminating in a final group which several of my friends were kind enough to attend in Westwood. Last year I moderated 8 groups in the bay area and LA. That makes 22 groups total with an average of 10 people/group (carry the 1) = 220 people have been lucky enough to watch me in action! Ladies and gentlemen, only one lucky participant has been so touched by my performance, so enthralled by my unequaled ability to ask pointed questions with enough drama but compassion to elicit the answers I so desperately crave, that he just had to call two weeks after the group took place to ask me to get coffee so he could see me one last time. This is a first in our office, or so my boss says. He didn't speak much English, so it took me a few minutes to understand the request being made on the other end of the line. But I got the message loud and clear: I'm irresistable ;-) or maybe he has a fetish for watching women sip (and most likely spill) hot beverages in 90 degree weather. Or is this simply a case of transference? I pretend to be jovial, smart, and in control, like all good "method" moderators. Does he really believe that's what I'm like at 10AM on a Tuesday? Wahahahahaha <evil witch cackle>. Actually my supervisor and I surmised that maybe we should take our focus groups out on the road. I proposed that I should hold focus groups in Century City or Downtown LA, where boys are likely to be wearing suits, to test out which lingerie outfit they prefer. My boss offered to throw in a pole dance... for research purposes of course. Instead of us paying them to attend, they would drop a few bones in our wallets! I could quit one of my jobs!! Who knew a career in science could be so lucrative??
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