Until my husband became an HVAC technician, I had never been to a company party.
When my husband started talking about the BBQ the HVAC company owner had every year, I didn’t know if I wanted to go.
My dad used to talk about the company picnics he went to until he had us girls. He thought taking triplets to a company picnic was a little too much for everyone else. He and mom thought they would go nuts when we were growing up, and he didn’t want to put anyone else through it. We are grown up now, and on our own, but I remember dad not taking us to any of his work events. This year, my husband and brother-in-law work at the same HVAC company. Although I’m looking forward to spending the day with one of my sisters, I’m not looking forward to the HVAC party. We were talking about it last night, and she was excited. She told me she had heard a lot about the BBQ’s. The owner of the HVAC company had raffle tickets that got you anything from a gag gift to a three-day weekend without a beeper. I thought that would be nice, but I still didn’t know if I wanted to go. After she begged, I asked my husband what time we had to leave for the BBQ. He told me he had his beeper, but he would like to be there by lunch. We didn’t know that whoever had the beeper had a definite prize of a three-day weekend at the shore.