I worked for blue cross of washington/alaska,in seattle, as a medical claims examiner, meaning I paid the claims. There were 900 employees in a 6 story cross shaped building, many of them were women in ages from just out of high school to near retirement. Some of them were lookers, some were just the opposite and some were exbarbazon models. The lady that hired me was slim, tall and decent looking, and engaged. My immediate super was a man about my own age. we got along just fine...But,,, none of the ladies bothered to talk to me, other than a begruntled hello if I should offer that myself. So I got a really good styled hair cut put on a suit and tie a little smelly gunk and went to work. At lunch time in the cafeteria as I found a place to sit the ladies heads near snapped off gaping at me..After lunch my lady boss came to me and said the ladies were telling her how much better I looked, I asked her why they were telling her?? She said ya why and went and brought back this stunning green eyed red head...Ah so you wonder what the heck that gots ta do with brusque, hey? So my boss up and quits and goes to work some place else and I get a new boss lady...A month goes by and she calls me in to the conference room and says there are complaints that I am to brusque? I dunno what brusque is and how I suddenly am that after a year and a half of working there....it means "abrupt or offhand in speech or manner, curt." wow , now how did I get to be that way????
