Sunday, May 2, 2010

Schmoozing

On Friday evening I had to go to this fund raising auction for three of the nursing homes that the pharmacy is contracted with. It was quite a pretentious event. Money flowed freely for most. For me it was a working event. I was supposed to schmooze with people and represent the pharmacy.


Originally I understood that the pharmacy would have a table and that we would all be sitting together. As it turned out it was not a seated event. On arrival you purchased tickets for the food and wine/beer tasting…or so we thought. There were booths around the outside of the room where you could taste locally made wine and beer, and there were stations of hors d’oeuvres as well. Each ticket to the event bought you two tastes. What we didn’t understand was that the tickets were just for the wine/beer, which explains the look on the woman’s face, when we purchased a total of 13 tickets, for the two of us. We would have been totally inebriated if we had used them all. Thankfully we were able to give them away in our schmoozing.


There were 3 or 4 rows of long tables with baskets, and packages in the silent auction, all of which were far too pricey for us to jump in. It was enjoyable to see what the different departments at the homes came up with, as well as the corporate donations. The food was good. Timothy was disappointed that there wasn’t a larger variety, but I particularly appreciated the curried chicken on bruschetta. Yummy!


We walked like 3 miles, shook too many hands, ate the gourmet food, drank a couple of glasses of Shirah, bought an obligatory $20 raffle ticket, pretended to seriously have bids in, shared an enormous brownie and then when the time was right, and we had done the things we came to do, we quietly slipped out the door, relieved it was over. Painful! I hate those events. I’m just not good at them. It was all about seeing, and being seen. I will suggest others go next year. J.


Post Script: With our one ticket we won the grand prize in the raffle: 2 night’s stay for 2 at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. I will call Monday and get the details.

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