I Love Dunk Tanks
So I know I haven’t really posted much, but I had an experience quite recently and thought I should share it cos I can’t really believe what happened. It appears that lighting can strike twice so to speak. Sorry is quite long, but is still quite fresh all the detail is in my head!!
Near the start of the year, I took a new job as an intern at a company that runs events and functions. It is something that I have always had an interest in and it seemed a good way to get more experience. Obviously I was new and at the bottom of the ladder as it were, so I wasn’t involved in a lot of the planning but help in the office, setting up events and assisting at meetings. Sometimes I had to do some buying for functions.
The company have several strands and looked after all sorts of things, right the way from family birthday events all the way up to big corporate charity fundraising dinners. Despite this, there are only about 15 people that work for the company full time, with everyone else being casual or brought in from staffing agencies. Because of this, and the range of things they do I actually had (am having) great fun and am still learning a lot.
I am still the “new one” and the youngest (but not by much) so as you can imagine I would always get a ribbing from the others about all sorts but all in good fun.
Anyway, this was only a few weeks back and as you can imagine, being towards the end of the year the company were very busy. We would have several events going on over a week, and often a couple on the same day. This meant that everyone was having to split their attention many ways, but this was great for me because I was getting the opportunity to get a lot more involved than I had been previously, including liaising with venues, caters and entertainment. I was most looking forward to being involved more with the running of the events, as I had only had a few chances to observe these previously, but with the extra workload I was going to be able to get more involved in the on site management.
So the day came when I got my chance. We had 3 events to look after on one Friday evening. One was a staff dinner at a nearby hall, which was fairly easy for us – just arranging catering and music, and decorating the hall. The other ones were a 21st birthday and a combined charity fundraiser for some connected local groups including ukulele, sports clubs and adult learning. These 2 events were (cleverly) both being held at a function rooms we use regularly and have several spaces which means we can run several on the same site simultaneously. I had been made responsible for the booking of the staff dinner, and had been told that I could set up and help out for the birthday; however at the start of the week I was informed that I would have to help manage the floor for the charity event as one of the leads was off ill. I was really excited as this was a new one for me, and because both events were at the same place it should not really be a problem to pop between the two.
Having got my event all sorted, asked what I could do for the preparation for either of the other two (as I had had nothing to do with them really up to that point). Of course, everything was pretty much done. I got the general picture for both events from the 2 guys that had been leading. Event number 1 (the birthday), was not overly complicated. 21st birthday party for a guy organised by some of his friends. They were having a medieval style hog roast banquet, with waiting staff in medieval costumes and a band to play after the meal. Wasn’t going to be too raucous but they were planning some embarrassing games for the birthday boy. Event number 2 was an annual charity fundraiser by a group of clubs to raise money for local causes. This year, the darts and poker association were hosting. For this we had drinks and canapes, a hot buffet dinner, entertainment and a raffle (organised by the client). This one was quite a lucrative one for us so had to go smoothly. I
I was given my list of things to get done. This included confirming the cake collection for the Friday, phone the costume hire company for the medical costumes and check the booking for the entertainment assistants who were coming from a local college. After phoning the bakery for the cake, I called the costume hire and relayed the codes I had hastily written down earlier. The person I was speaking to was a temp I think so I was on the phone for a while. I fired an email through to the contact for the college students as I was running short of time then headed out as the office was being locked up.
On the day of the event we all rocked up early to be ahead of the deliveries. All the rooms were set up correctly, so I jumped in a car with one of the guys and we went to the bakers and costume hire to pick up the items. Returning to our venue, we dropped the boxes off in the correct rooms and supervised the final set up from caterers, sound hire etc.
About 2 hours before the events started, Phil (the events lead for the charity event) cane and found me with a man and woman. They were the people who had been booked as entertainment and hosting duties. He was a recently graduated student off a drama and music course and was already a bit of a local celebrity. She was a first year student on the same course. There was supposed to be another girl from the course there but had some down with something that morning. They were in a bit of a panic because, although they could cover most of what they had planned with the two of them, there was a routine they couldn’t do without, plus the raffle would be harder and there was potentially a fund raising event later on. The difficulty was that the routine involve tap dancing, now I learned to tap-dance when I was younger so, desperate to help the event go perfectly, I mentioned this and asked if I could help out. There was only Phil, me and Andrew on that night so Phil said this would be great as long as I was able to assist on both functions as well which I said of course. I was quickly taught the routine which wasn’t actually that complicated, just a short song with dance.
When everything was ready I got a lift back to the office to get changed into the black dress I had brought for the evening and got back in time to welcomed= the birthday party in a got them sorted, and then moved upstairs to the main hall to greet guests to the charity event. Thankfully everything was going really smoothly throughout. The birthday group were eating, and the charity event had speeches and some entertainment and now the hot buffet was being served. I was tapped on the shoulder by Andrew. Andrew is quite a shy person but we have always got on quite well despite the fact he always seemed a bit awkward around me. He said that they needed me backstage because it was nearly time for the dance routine, and did I know where the costumes were? Apparently some of the ones I have got from the hire place had been asked for this routine. I quickly ran downstairs to a small room e had next the birthday event and thankfully in the bottom of the box were two bags labelled “tux”. Happy that obviously the newbie at the hire place had put everything in, I grabbed them and headed up the back stairs to the backstage area of the main hall. Kyran (the main guy) was already in his own outfit, and Katie was there still in here cocktail dress, both looking white relieved to see I had turned up. Both packages were labelled the same size (which we both were) so I gave one to her and I took the other one. Kyran left us to get ready. I watched Katie pull out of her bag some silver tap shoes, and silver top hat, black tail coats, a fake white collar and bow tie thing, fishnet tights and a black leotard then she went into the toilet first while I waited . She was pretty quick getting changed and looked great when she came out which made me feel a bit less worried about the whole thing. I went into the toilet and I got my dress and tights off and started pulling things out the. Katie called through the door and said don’t forget you need the tights before the leotard, which I did. However, search as I may I could find no leotard. Everything else was there but not that. I started to panic and couldn’t believe they had managed to miss out one of the most important things, and at that moment there was a knock at the door and Kyrans voiced called that we were on in one minute. I said to Katie though the door what do I do. She look really concerned, then said hold on, if you just ear you underwear over the tights because it is black I am sure we will get away with it. Nearly in tears at this point I replied that it was really not the best idea, but she said that it was all we could do. I would be fine and it was only one dance number. No one would really pay attention anyway. My problem was that because of the dress I was wearing for the evening, yes my underwear was black, but it was a thong and even worse my bra was with my daytime clothes back in the office. I pulled on the rest of the costume, and totally mortified stepped out the toilet. I couldn’t believe I was about to go onstage like this in front of my colleagues/bosses and a big client wearing this little, all because I thought I could help out and progress my career by making the event a success. Katie seeing my look of terror gave me reassuring smile and said its fine we look the same enough from the front, which we did apart from my more apparent cleavage. Andrew knocked and came in the room to say we were on, took one look at me and went quite red. Showed us out the room then stayed behind me all the way up the stairs to the side of stage. He mumbled a good luck and I should be proud at saving the event. I said thank you, but asked him to distract Phil during the routine. The music started and we went on and did the routine as rehearsed. The actual song went really well and by the end I felt a bit more comfortable and I think got away with not exposing myself too much though I am sure I did spot a few cheeky looks from the nearer tables. As it finished I was about to sidle off when they announced the raffle. Disaster, I had to stay on stage for another 10 minutes to hand out the prizes (thankfully Katie saved my and volunteered to be the one to go among the audience to get tickets picked). As soon as I could I rushed off stage and header towards the room backstage, however I was met by Andrew who said that the cake was ready to be served downstairs and Phil needed me to take care of it as planned right away. I asked hum if he could do it but he said that Phil needed him back straight away and it was my responsibility. Panicked by this, I flew down the back stairs where the cake was sat primed on a trolley. I thought if I can get it in quick and get out then all will be fine. I caught the bands eye from the door who started playing happy birthday. I took the cake the length of the room to the head of the table and presented the cake. Given the waiting staff had been in costume I didn’t feel too out of place. However as the song finished and the room was returning to normal, Traditionally we would serve a piece of cake to the birthday boy (calling him boy but only a year younger than me) then leave the rest for self-service, but as I did so I managed to knock a break roll on the floor which rolled around the chair. Without thinking I bent down to pick it up following its roll and it was only when I reached up to put it back on the table and seeing the smile on his face I realised not only at that point could he see right down my tuxedo jacket but had probably got a glimpse of the back of my thong giving him a birthday present he hadn’t expected. The damage done I wished him happy birthday, posed for a selfie with him then rushed out the room as fast as I could go back upstairs. Determined to get back to normal and pretend the past half hour hadn't happened I went into the backstage room. However in there were Phil, Katie and Kyran. Phil beckoned me over and thanked me for stepping in; he hadn’t seen it but apparently had been a big success so thank you. He went on to say that the one of the clients had organised some other bits with the students so if I could help out with that, that would be great. Now the bulk of the event was done, he was to deal with some paperwork back at the office but would be back to lock up, Andrew was staying to assist on the floor. I said I’m sure that will be fine and Phil popped away and came back with a man and a woman from the organising committee then waved and left. They were really nice and introduced themselves, and then asked who was Katie, She smile and waved then the man said you were the one who said they have some experience running black jack and roulette as a croupier. She said yes that’s right. He said great, we will be starting those tables shortly and he led her out the room. The woman said so you must be Samantha then. I said no actually she couldn’t make it but hopefully I can help. Desperate to get dressed, I thought I would just get this done then get changed. She said, well thankfully you don’t need to have anything ready but we had asked Samantha if she would participate in a dunk tank. A couple of the senior members were to do it as well as this usefully gets people to cough up, but they were going to have her as a “mystery guest”. I hadn’t heard about this but she said they have a contact has one from other events he has lent which was set up at the back lobby – no idea how I hadn’t spotted that yet. She then said if I could get ready and come on stage as they announce the next events. Thinking this didn’t seem too bad I asked what they had for people to wear, She replied, I think that Samantha was sorting something out, the other guys have brought clothe. Feeling panicked again, I said to her that I was in a rented costume and would probably be in a lot of trouble if it got ruined, and I had nothing else so as I couldn’t really do it in my underwear, maybe it wouldn’t work out. She was quiet for quite a time, and then said, “Look I wouldn’t normally say this, but to be honest a lot of us have seen a bit of your underwear already this evening. With the sports teams we have in tonight, we could raise a lot more if you did.” She handed me her drink and told me to neck this and have a think, whether I came on stage when they were announcing the events or not would let her know. I down the drink (very strong) and thought hard. I was really out of my comfort zone now but the thought of making a huge difference was in my thoughts. Eventually Kyran was on stage to introduce the upcoming events and introduce Katie as croupier who got a bit applause, then the dunk tank which got an oooh, There were cheers for the chairman and vice as they came up and as they turned to the side of stage I felt myself walking on as Kyran announced their special mystery guest. There was a big applause and I’m sure a few whistles. I followed the others down the stairs and watched from the back as the two gentlemen had 10 mins on the dunker. Then it was my turn. Having decided to make the most of it, I walked to the front and said that I can go on now or, if we can get £300 in the next 5 minutes the costume would go. I thought this would be greeted luke warmly, but in less than 5 minutes we had 350 from the surrounding crowd (men and women). Having committed myself I congratulated everyone then move onto the tank (was one with a set that dropped). Having already lost the tights, bow, hat and shoes, I slipped the jacket off from the seat and through it to the side, covering my chest with my arm. People then paid money to throw at a paddle to try and drop me. The first few were unsuccessful, and despite the fact I was sat virtually naked on a dunk tank for charity, was feeling quite good. Then I happened to look up to see Andrew walking out the door with the birthday guy from the other event. Andrew didn’t know this was what I was doing, and had just been told I was out here. Andrew looked as though he was going to leave quickly already a shad e of red, but the birthday boy asked to have a shot. He paid a fiver than threw 3 beanbags that missed. He threw his third and it hit. I felt the seat drop from under me and I fell into the water and because I had to move my arms gave everyone a full view of my boobs and of course my bum when I got out to go back on. I was dunked another 5 times before Andrew retuned to announce final speeches upstairs and had a towel for me. All the guest returned upstairs and I asked Andrew for the towel but pleased with him to not let the others in the office know as it may ruin my chances. He said of course, then I smiled and asked him if he would like a shot (I had managed to have a few more drinks by now for Dutch courage) and said if he put in 20 he could buy off the last item of clothing. He said “absolutely, I will definitely do that” so I slid off my thong and waited on the seat. On the first shot I was in the water completely naked. I climbed out allowing Andrew a full look at me before giving him a kiss on the cheek then wrapping myself in the towel. I hurried upstairs and got my dress back on, and by the time Phil had returned the event was over and a complete success. Phil or anyone in the office never were told the full extent of my involvement and were very happy with how things went. Andrew, despite being a lot more embarrassed when he speaks to me now, is great and I like the fact we have a funny secret from everyone else. I hope that this won't become some sort of horrifying tradition and I can do the paperwork next year!!
Near the start of the year, I took a new job as an intern at a company that runs events and functions. It is something that I have always had an interest in and it seemed a good way to get more experience. Obviously I was new and at the bottom of the ladder as it were, so I wasn’t involved in a lot of the planning but help in the office, setting up events and assisting at meetings. Sometimes I had to do some buying for functions.
The company have several strands and looked after all sorts of things, right the way from family birthday events all the way up to big corporate charity fundraising dinners. Despite this, there are only about 15 people that work for the company full time, with everyone else being casual or brought in from staffing agencies. Because of this, and the range of things they do I actually had (am having) great fun and am still learning a lot.
I am still the “new one” and the youngest (but not by much) so as you can imagine I would always get a ribbing from the others about all sorts but all in good fun.
Anyway, this was only a few weeks back and as you can imagine, being towards the end of the year the company were very busy. We would have several events going on over a week, and often a couple on the same day. This meant that everyone was having to split their attention many ways, but this was great for me because I was getting the opportunity to get a lot more involved than I had been previously, including liaising with venues, caters and entertainment. I was most looking forward to being involved more with the running of the events, as I had only had a few chances to observe these previously, but with the extra workload I was going to be able to get more involved in the on site management.
So the day came when I got my chance. We had 3 events to look after on one Friday evening. One was a staff dinner at a nearby hall, which was fairly easy for us – just arranging catering and music, and decorating the hall. The other ones were a 21st birthday and a combined charity fundraiser for some connected local groups including ukulele, sports clubs and adult learning. These 2 events were (cleverly) both being held at a function rooms we use regularly and have several spaces which means we can run several on the same site simultaneously. I had been made responsible for the booking of the staff dinner, and had been told that I could set up and help out for the birthday; however at the start of the week I was informed that I would have to help manage the floor for the charity event as one of the leads was off ill. I was really excited as this was a new one for me, and because both events were at the same place it should not really be a problem to pop between the two.
Having got my event all sorted, asked what I could do for the preparation for either of the other two (as I had had nothing to do with them really up to that point). Of course, everything was pretty much done. I got the general picture for both events from the 2 guys that had been leading. Event number 1 (the birthday), was not overly complicated. 21st birthday party for a guy organised by some of his friends. They were having a medieval style hog roast banquet, with waiting staff in medieval costumes and a band to play after the meal. Wasn’t going to be too raucous but they were planning some embarrassing games for the birthday boy. Event number 2 was an annual charity fundraiser by a group of clubs to raise money for local causes. This year, the darts and poker association were hosting. For this we had drinks and canapes, a hot buffet dinner, entertainment and a raffle (organised by the client). This one was quite a lucrative one for us so had to go smoothly. I
I was given my list of things to get done. This included confirming the cake collection for the Friday, phone the costume hire company for the medical costumes and check the booking for the entertainment assistants who were coming from a local college. After phoning the bakery for the cake, I called the costume hire and relayed the codes I had hastily written down earlier. The person I was speaking to was a temp I think so I was on the phone for a while. I fired an email through to the contact for the college students as I was running short of time then headed out as the office was being locked up.
On the day of the event we all rocked up early to be ahead of the deliveries. All the rooms were set up correctly, so I jumped in a car with one of the guys and we went to the bakers and costume hire to pick up the items. Returning to our venue, we dropped the boxes off in the correct rooms and supervised the final set up from caterers, sound hire etc.
About 2 hours before the events started, Phil (the events lead for the charity event) cane and found me with a man and woman. They were the people who had been booked as entertainment and hosting duties. He was a recently graduated student off a drama and music course and was already a bit of a local celebrity. She was a first year student on the same course. There was supposed to be another girl from the course there but had some down with something that morning. They were in a bit of a panic because, although they could cover most of what they had planned with the two of them, there was a routine they couldn’t do without, plus the raffle would be harder and there was potentially a fund raising event later on. The difficulty was that the routine involve tap dancing, now I learned to tap-dance when I was younger so, desperate to help the event go perfectly, I mentioned this and asked if I could help out. There was only Phil, me and Andrew on that night so Phil said this would be great as long as I was able to assist on both functions as well which I said of course. I was quickly taught the routine which wasn’t actually that complicated, just a short song with dance.
When everything was ready I got a lift back to the office to get changed into the black dress I had brought for the evening and got back in time to welcomed= the birthday party in a got them sorted, and then moved upstairs to the main hall to greet guests to the charity event. Thankfully everything was going really smoothly throughout. The birthday group were eating, and the charity event had speeches and some entertainment and now the hot buffet was being served. I was tapped on the shoulder by Andrew. Andrew is quite a shy person but we have always got on quite well despite the fact he always seemed a bit awkward around me. He said that they needed me backstage because it was nearly time for the dance routine, and did I know where the costumes were? Apparently some of the ones I have got from the hire place had been asked for this routine. I quickly ran downstairs to a small room e had next the birthday event and thankfully in the bottom of the box were two bags labelled “tux”. Happy that obviously the newbie at the hire place had put everything in, I grabbed them and headed up the back stairs to the backstage area of the main hall. Kyran (the main guy) was already in his own outfit, and Katie was there still in here cocktail dress, both looking white relieved to see I had turned up. Both packages were labelled the same size (which we both were) so I gave one to her and I took the other one. Kyran left us to get ready. I watched Katie pull out of her bag some silver tap shoes, and silver top hat, black tail coats, a fake white collar and bow tie thing, fishnet tights and a black leotard then she went into the toilet first while I waited . She was pretty quick getting changed and looked great when she came out which made me feel a bit less worried about the whole thing. I went into the toilet and I got my dress and tights off and started pulling things out the. Katie called through the door and said don’t forget you need the tights before the leotard, which I did. However, search as I may I could find no leotard. Everything else was there but not that. I started to panic and couldn’t believe they had managed to miss out one of the most important things, and at that moment there was a knock at the door and Kyrans voiced called that we were on in one minute. I said to Katie though the door what do I do. She look really concerned, then said hold on, if you just ear you underwear over the tights because it is black I am sure we will get away with it. Nearly in tears at this point I replied that it was really not the best idea, but she said that it was all we could do. I would be fine and it was only one dance number. No one would really pay attention anyway. My problem was that because of the dress I was wearing for the evening, yes my underwear was black, but it was a thong and even worse my bra was with my daytime clothes back in the office. I pulled on the rest of the costume, and totally mortified stepped out the toilet. I couldn’t believe I was about to go onstage like this in front of my colleagues/bosses and a big client wearing this little, all because I thought I could help out and progress my career by making the event a success. Katie seeing my look of terror gave me reassuring smile and said its fine we look the same enough from the front, which we did apart from my more apparent cleavage. Andrew knocked and came in the room to say we were on, took one look at me and went quite red. Showed us out the room then stayed behind me all the way up the stairs to the side of stage. He mumbled a good luck and I should be proud at saving the event. I said thank you, but asked him to distract Phil during the routine. The music started and we went on and did the routine as rehearsed. The actual song went really well and by the end I felt a bit more comfortable and I think got away with not exposing myself too much though I am sure I did spot a few cheeky looks from the nearer tables. As it finished I was about to sidle off when they announced the raffle. Disaster, I had to stay on stage for another 10 minutes to hand out the prizes (thankfully Katie saved my and volunteered to be the one to go among the audience to get tickets picked). As soon as I could I rushed off stage and header towards the room backstage, however I was met by Andrew who said that the cake was ready to be served downstairs and Phil needed me to take care of it as planned right away. I asked hum if he could do it but he said that Phil needed him back straight away and it was my responsibility. Panicked by this, I flew down the back stairs where the cake was sat primed on a trolley. I thought if I can get it in quick and get out then all will be fine. I caught the bands eye from the door who started playing happy birthday. I took the cake the length of the room to the head of the table and presented the cake. Given the waiting staff had been in costume I didn’t feel too out of place. However as the song finished and the room was returning to normal, Traditionally we would serve a piece of cake to the birthday boy (calling him boy but only a year younger than me) then leave the rest for self-service, but as I did so I managed to knock a break roll on the floor which rolled around the chair. Without thinking I bent down to pick it up following its roll and it was only when I reached up to put it back on the table and seeing the smile on his face I realised not only at that point could he see right down my tuxedo jacket but had probably got a glimpse of the back of my thong giving him a birthday present he hadn’t expected. The damage done I wished him happy birthday, posed for a selfie with him then rushed out the room as fast as I could go back upstairs. Determined to get back to normal and pretend the past half hour hadn't happened I went into the backstage room. However in there were Phil, Katie and Kyran. Phil beckoned me over and thanked me for stepping in; he hadn’t seen it but apparently had been a big success so thank you. He went on to say that the one of the clients had organised some other bits with the students so if I could help out with that, that would be great. Now the bulk of the event was done, he was to deal with some paperwork back at the office but would be back to lock up, Andrew was staying to assist on the floor. I said I’m sure that will be fine and Phil popped away and came back with a man and a woman from the organising committee then waved and left. They were really nice and introduced themselves, and then asked who was Katie, She smile and waved then the man said you were the one who said they have some experience running black jack and roulette as a croupier. She said yes that’s right. He said great, we will be starting those tables shortly and he led her out the room. The woman said so you must be Samantha then. I said no actually she couldn’t make it but hopefully I can help. Desperate to get dressed, I thought I would just get this done then get changed. She said, well thankfully you don’t need to have anything ready but we had asked Samantha if she would participate in a dunk tank. A couple of the senior members were to do it as well as this usefully gets people to cough up, but they were going to have her as a “mystery guest”. I hadn’t heard about this but she said they have a contact has one from other events he has lent which was set up at the back lobby – no idea how I hadn’t spotted that yet. She then said if I could get ready and come on stage as they announce the next events. Thinking this didn’t seem too bad I asked what they had for people to wear, She replied, I think that Samantha was sorting something out, the other guys have brought clothe. Feeling panicked again, I said to her that I was in a rented costume and would probably be in a lot of trouble if it got ruined, and I had nothing else so as I couldn’t really do it in my underwear, maybe it wouldn’t work out. She was quiet for quite a time, and then said, “Look I wouldn’t normally say this, but to be honest a lot of us have seen a bit of your underwear already this evening. With the sports teams we have in tonight, we could raise a lot more if you did.” She handed me her drink and told me to neck this and have a think, whether I came on stage when they were announcing the events or not would let her know. I down the drink (very strong) and thought hard. I was really out of my comfort zone now but the thought of making a huge difference was in my thoughts. Eventually Kyran was on stage to introduce the upcoming events and introduce Katie as croupier who got a bit applause, then the dunk tank which got an oooh, There were cheers for the chairman and vice as they came up and as they turned to the side of stage I felt myself walking on as Kyran announced their special mystery guest. There was a big applause and I’m sure a few whistles. I followed the others down the stairs and watched from the back as the two gentlemen had 10 mins on the dunker. Then it was my turn. Having decided to make the most of it, I walked to the front and said that I can go on now or, if we can get £300 in the next 5 minutes the costume would go. I thought this would be greeted luke warmly, but in less than 5 minutes we had 350 from the surrounding crowd (men and women). Having committed myself I congratulated everyone then move onto the tank (was one with a set that dropped). Having already lost the tights, bow, hat and shoes, I slipped the jacket off from the seat and through it to the side, covering my chest with my arm. People then paid money to throw at a paddle to try and drop me. The first few were unsuccessful, and despite the fact I was sat virtually naked on a dunk tank for charity, was feeling quite good. Then I happened to look up to see Andrew walking out the door with the birthday guy from the other event. Andrew didn’t know this was what I was doing, and had just been told I was out here. Andrew looked as though he was going to leave quickly already a shad e of red, but the birthday boy asked to have a shot. He paid a fiver than threw 3 beanbags that missed. He threw his third and it hit. I felt the seat drop from under me and I fell into the water and because I had to move my arms gave everyone a full view of my boobs and of course my bum when I got out to go back on. I was dunked another 5 times before Andrew retuned to announce final speeches upstairs and had a towel for me. All the guest returned upstairs and I asked Andrew for the towel but pleased with him to not let the others in the office know as it may ruin my chances. He said of course, then I smiled and asked him if he would like a shot (I had managed to have a few more drinks by now for Dutch courage) and said if he put in 20 he could buy off the last item of clothing. He said “absolutely, I will definitely do that” so I slid off my thong and waited on the seat. On the first shot I was in the water completely naked. I climbed out allowing Andrew a full look at me before giving him a kiss on the cheek then wrapping myself in the towel. I hurried upstairs and got my dress back on, and by the time Phil had returned the event was over and a complete success. Phil or anyone in the office never were told the full extent of my involvement and were very happy with how things went. Andrew, despite being a lot more embarrassed when he speaks to me now, is great and I like the fact we have a funny secret from everyone else. I hope that this won't become some sort of horrifying tradition and I can do the paperwork next year!!
