He smiled and looked at me expectantly. “Yeah?”
“Several members of the Alliance’s board of directors are stepping down this spring, and I’d really like you to take a seat on the board.”
His face fell for a moment. Then he grinned. “Okay.”
“Okay? Just like that? I don’t have to do a song and dance?”
“No way. I’d be happy to be a member of your board.”
I took a deep breath and let it out. “Wow. The usual, uh, ritual, I suppose, is that you act coy and I do a selling job. Then you reluctantly agree. That way we feel in your debt for putting upon you so.”
He chuckled. “Nope. No crap. I said I’d like to be on the board.”
I explained that the Alliance had its annual business meeting in April and that the names of the new board members would be presented then. “It’s possible to receive no
