Meeting my new accountant (with a disclaimer):

(if the death of an insect really bothers you—and I know it does some people—please scroll past this. I’m letting folks know going in.-bb)

The accountant was very nice and had been a friend of the person who had helped me since I retired, and missed him too. She was explaining things with the tax laws in our state since last year, going over stuff, when I caught a glimpse of something over her shoulder, and pointed. It was a huge beetle on the wall..

She looked, shrieked and ran down the hall, leaving me in her office. I went to the door and could hear her asking colleagues to help her kill a big bug in her office. There were all women, and [b]nobody[/b] wanted to help. I even heard someone suggest stopping a man passing the building. I couldn’t imagine how [b]that[/b] request would’ve sounded.

So I saw a box of Kleenex, killed the bug, put it in the garbage. I then went out, where they were [b]still[/b] in discussion about it
I got their attention and said, before heading back to the office, "I have [b]dispatched[/b] the creature. All is well." I heard one say, "what was that ?" and the reply, "She said she killed the bug and everything’s cool." My accountant cautiously came back into her office and I assured her the bug was no longer an issue.

So, she’s excellent at what I hired her to do, answered all my questions, took care of concerns, and overall very pleasant. And she’s scared of insects. I’m not crazy about them myself, so I’m not going to hold that against her. 🙂