Menage à Trois Bingo

On a quasi-regular basis, we have "Conversations with the CEO". He gathers a group of employees, we get a catered lunch, and a chance to have a smallish-group conversation. Due to department demographics, this was a group of about twenty men and three women.

Among other, more-serious topics, such as the difficulty of recruiting new programmers--I'd specifically asked about recruiting of women--and immediately after I asked about whether we'd be offered domestic partner health insurance, one guy asked for a change in the dress code.

Mike: I would like a change in the dress code to allow shorts.

CEO: You mean you'd wear shorts everyday, right now?

Mike: Yes.

CEO: You'd rather have shorts than medical insurance?

Mike: I don't get sick.

Me: How about, we drop the gender specific part and let all y'all wear skirts?

CEO: I'll wear a skirt if you will...

Mike: You're on!

Room: You don't know Mike very well, do you.

Jason: [I forget the exact wording] ... wear drawers with your skirt?

Me: That's how you know whether it's a kilt or a skirt!