http://www.antlersvail.com/2011/01/as-the-antlers-turn-scene-9/ Condominiums and Conference Center at Vail, Colorado Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:11:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.antlersvail.com/2011/01/as-the-antlers-turn-scene-9/comment-page-1/#comment-26947 Rob Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:03:55 +0000 http://www.antlersvail.com/?p=9947#comment-26947 That reminds me of the time a few years ago when we were hosting the annual CACI board retreat, as we do each September. Christine Schlagor, who was then the Colorado Managing Director for Quest Diagnostics, is an attractive, early-fifties, very sophisticated, professional business woman. My experience serving with her on the CACI board is such that it’s hard to imagine her wearing anything but a nice business suit and high heels. Christine had been at the afternoon meeting on Thursday, as well as the evening festivities, but was curiously absent at the Friday morning session. That is, until she showed up about thirty minutes late. A gap in the meeting conversation allowed her to share the story that she had stepped out on the balcony (second floor in this case) and had been similarly locked out. After ten or fifteen minutes of hoping someone would wander by on the bikepath, she took matters into her own hands and climbed over the railing, hung off the edge of the deck and then dropped the five or six feet to the ground below. I believe she had slipped off the heels and performed her acrobatics barefoot.
Needless to say, as her host I was thoroughly embarrassed that she had been forced to undergo the experience. Fortunately, she was typically gracious about it. No hard feelings. Best of all, for the next year or two she became frequently and affectionately referred to by the other board members as “MacGyver”.

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