Lee Peterson

And then Les got up there and spoke.

He goes, you know what?

He goes, I don't really believe in stopping to smell the roses.

And there was this kind of a hush over the room, and he goes, I'm afraid I'm going to get hit by a truck.

And we all looked at each other and thought, wow, okay.

But that gives you an idea of the mindset.

I remember looking at the person next to me and saying, I thought maybe we were going to break out some champagne or something here.

Guess not.

We were on a merchant trip, and the head merchant of the trip said to us, you know, Les is really thinking about buying this company called Victoria's Secret.

And so we went down to Union Street.

We were walking up and down Union Street, and we came across this big blue house, basically, you know, classic San Francisco house with the three turrets and a front three-story.

You walked up the stairs, and the whole right-hand side was a store.

And it was...

covered in like velvet and lingerie and you know the the right kind of chandeliers and you know great employees and it was very cozy very warm the vibe in there i believe classical music was sensual like a really wonderful sensual atmosphere and you know we looked at each other and i walked around there for a while and i thought what

Is he crazy?

You know, like, what's he thinking?

And even the head merchant at the time was like, well, you know, he's done everything right to this point.

So I think we've got to have faith in him.

There was a guy, he was the...

the Columbus truck driver.