Let me explain, I work with the marketing and pr staff of the division of tourism. Considering it is Labor Day weekend, what some consider being the closeout weekend of the summer, and Hurricane Earl is slated to arrive at 2 am Friday morning to tear up the OBX coast, leave flooding, beach erosion, and sand overflow, we are very busy here in the office. It’s a very slow busy, because we are basically waiting to see what will happen, but we are getting a lot of calls from radio and TV studios asking for us to make statements about Hurricane Earl and its effects on the labor day tourism.
I had a very interesting conversation first thing this morning with a woman named Catianna from Montreal. Her English was much better than my French and I did not get to dust off my French and practice my minute skills. I did relish for a moment in her beautiful accent and imagined a very trendy, French-Canadian model on the other end of the phone line. This thought didn’t last long. I had to pay close attention to her words to make out the meaning and daydreaming was not helping. I returned to reality thinking that she is probably overweight and forty. She is working with a radio station where looks could be considered less important. If she had been calling from the television station, my assumption may have been different. None the less, I am now searching for someone who speaks fluent French.
Oh the joys of being an assistant.
For those of you wondering, evacuations on the OBX include: Hatteras, Ocracoke, and the towns of Duck, Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, Nags Head, Southern Shores, Roanoke Island and the mainland of Dare County.
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