Scott L
I just learned of Frank's passing yesterday.
We worked together in the mid-to-late 90s at PwC both in the Houston office and on projects in Detroit.
First, I'd like to boast that I got a "That boy ain't right" from Frank a year *before* "King of the Hill" came on the air. I wear that with honor.
I remember
...him sending a letter home to his daughter every week and including a full size Hersey's bar from a big box he kept in his desk drawer.
...Frank, me, and two other guys in Chicago in a taxi from Cominsky Park to the Palmer House Hilton loudly singly along to the radio when Carole King's "You make me feel like a natural woman" came on, all the while the cabbie slowly shaking his head 'no'. We tipped well on expense account.
...him ordering pizza from the same place I did the day after I told him the delivery person was an attractive young woman. (He had verified that the pizza was decent as well)
...him calling me the "Dumbest smart guy" he knew after we showed up at restaurant I found in a newspaper review and it was on the 2nd floor with no elevator. We said we should go somewhere else but he said he wanted to try the food now and insisted we hoist him up there (there were at least 6 of us including Frank). It was an amazing meal and all 3 PwC area teams returned there multiple times.
Coming down was harder as I was the only one who hadn't had something to drink. I had to invert the chain of command and bark commands to keep us all from tumbling to the bottom of the stairwell.
...him scoring the game from the amazing company seats behind home plate at old Tiger stadium for a pitcher's duel that lasted just under *2* hours.
...him guilting me for 'stranding' him by taking our shared rental car to see a concert with another coworker only to find out later he'd spent the evening at a club next to the hotel called "Cheetahs"
...meeting up with him in Seattle, years after I left the company, to see the early Ichiro-mania
...his extremely rare in the consulting world common sense/no BS approach that could keep a client from exploding a project plan.
Thanks for the good times and the guidance Stobie
Scott Landsman
