Little Green Monsters: A Beginning - (Hattrick - Season 18)

[SplitPersonality1]

Surprise! - (Feb. 18th, 2003)

[Ahhhh! The joys of stretching out in your own plane getting back from a well-deserved vacation in the Keys.]

Rrrrrrring! [Damn! It was too good to last]

SplitP: Hello……Maria, how goes it back at headquarters.

Maria: You would know if you would check the messages on your phone.

SplitP: Come now Maria, you know the deal. I get one week to myself every year. This was the week. Besides, I checked the web, Personality Incorporated is doing just fine without me there. [Executive assistants worry waaay too much]. Besides, I’ll be back on the ground in about three hours.

Maria: Good thing sir. [pause…uh oh, she paused] Especially since your news conference starts as soon as you land in Milwaukee.

SplitP: My what!!!

Maria: I take it your brother didn’t get a hold of you. [Do I detect a bit of sarcasm from the old broad?]

SplitP: What did he do this time?

Maria: Nothing much...just bought a professional football team, that’s all.

SplitP: What?!? Personality Inc. doesn’t have that kind of capital! Which team did he buy, the Bengals?

Maria: Not that kind of football team, sir. Soccer. In that upstart Hattrick league.

SplitP: Hattrick? But. I. When…

Maria: Don’t worry sir; I am uploading all the pertinent information into your laptop as we speak. You now have slightly less than three hours to prepare for the news conference. Wear the blue-striped tie. It looks good on you.

SplitP: Uh, thanks Maria.

Maria: No prob, boss. See you when you get in…Maria, out.

[Great. What has my no-account brother gotten me into, this time.]

Laptop: File is done!

[Wonderful. Looks like my vacation has officially ended…Time to get to work.]