A Helluva World (A People Person - Part 2)

I hadn’t been on the job four hours before Gene appeared breathlessly in my cubicle saying he’d just heard form a Yemeni caliph willing to pay six figures for a California virgin if we could deliver her within 72 hours. “Yemeni Christmas!” I exclaimed, unable to resist the pun. Gene just looked at me quizzically.

I tried another tack; “How many?” I said…