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And then I realized, if I'm at home in this and I got this leg and I can't bend it, and I got a cast on it and so forth, what I need to do is get back on the road speaking.
I called my assistant and I said, "Do you know that woman that keeps calling every week and saying, 'Wendy's Jeanne gonna be able to speak? Our convention is rolling around in DeLand, Florida.'"
I said, "Call our Toni. I'm going."
She said, "I think it's time for you to get on the road. I'll drive you down there if I have to. Ten and a half hours right down I-95."
Okay, and then it rolled around for the time for me to go, and I called my assistant Toni, queen of the tickets. Y'all probably know Toni; she's running my office for 39 years. Is that not amazing?
Nobody's ever uploaded on you, Toni. I'm throwing a little bit.
No, we were at Auburn University in Alabama together and both wound up back in this county with our families.
39 years, and she had said, "I'll take you down there, don't worry about it."
And she said, "Oh, I can't go. I can't do it, Jeannie. I've read the weather report. It's supposed to snow here Monday, and Leslie, that's her dollar, we'll have to teach. And if she's teaching, I don't need to babysit, so I can't do that."
39 years, a monthly paycheck for 39 years.
Let me tell you how close Toni and I are. I tell her about anything. You don't work with somebody for 39 years and not know everything about each other.
So I went in one time. I've noticed that my left eye was drooping. It just happens, and I thought, I got to get something done about that. It's showing up in pictures and photographs.
So I went in, and Toni's sitting at the computer typing. I said, "Toni, look at this. Can you see anything wrong here?"
She said, "I'm busy."
I said, "No, Toni, I'm thinking about having plastic surgery."
She said, "You can pull that face straight if you want to, but your elbows are gonna give you away."
And I said, "No, Toni, I'm serious now. I want you to get the name of a plastic surgeon. I don't want him to go in here and fix my eye, and while he's in there, pull up my face just a little bit, but don't call anybody in this county. I don't want anybody to know about it. Go far away."
She got an appointment in Durham, and I went in. I found myself in front of this man, and he said very nicely, "Mrs. Robertson, why are you here?"
And I said, "Oh, can't you see? Look at my droopy eye. I want you to go in there and do the droopy eye and do the rest of the face so that the droopy eye looks so good and the rest look bad. Help me out a little bit here."
He came over and examined my droopy eye and sat down. He said, "Miss Robertson, there's nothing wrong with your eye. If you're looking at pictures, everybody has one eye that's more open in a picture than another one, so you need not worry about that."
And you didn't fill out any papers when you came in here that said to me why you thought you were here.
I like for people to come in, and then I look at them and I make a decision on why I think they're here.
And I didn't look at your eye at all. I thought you were here about your neck.
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