Write brain exercise day one

Day one:
Using these three words: banister, massage and harried in a scene, starting with "sometimes I feel just like a gerbil running around and around in his wheel."

“Sometimes I feel just like a gerbil, running around and around on his wheel,” Abby thought while she absently listened to the accounting presentation. This was the fourth meeting of the day and it was only 11:00. The rest of the day loomed in front of her, full of more meetings, including a lunch meeting. There would be no break in her harried schedule.

“Miss Allan, did you have any questions or concerns with the new budget?” the VP asked, pulling her out of her contemplation.

“Uh no, sir. I went over the numbers last night and everything appears to be satisfactory.”

“Well then, if there are no other concerns, let us wrap up this meeting, I have other things to attend to.”

“That would be a golf outing and his afternoon massage,” Abby thought to herself.

He was the first to leave the room and was nearly halfway down the grand staircase toward the lobby when he turned around and called up to Abby. She leaned over the banister and replied.

“Yes, sir?”

“Abby, girl, do me a favor won’t you?”

“Certainly sir.”

“Call the country club and push my tee time back an hour.” Without another word, he turned and walked the rest of the way down the stairs and vanished out of the lobby.

Abby froze, stunned by his gall to ask her, the financial analyst to handle such menial things, but then his secretary was out of town and she was the only other female in the department. She balked at the thought of being stuck working in a good ole’ boys company.

With new conviction she vowed to start looking for a new job tomorrow.