In article om, JimL wrote:
[snip] time to develop. Finally, I know it's a bit of showmanship, but for
the office visitor waiting through this uncapping and writing ritual,
[snip] If I want to be even more "impressive," I open up a leather folder
with a pad or single sheets of nice paper.
I know, it's theater, image, [snip]
Plus the time this takes slows down the negotiating time.

haha. the "theatre" also works in a meeting for me. :-)

regards,

Pam's Ode to Spammers & Telemarketers

May all spammers & telemarketers die an agonizing death; have no
burial places; their souls be chased by demons in Gehenna from one
room to another for 1000 years.