Dear Ann Landers,
demand equal time. Will you please print an "Executive's Prayer"? Thank you very much.

Dear Lord,
Give me the patience of a saint and the ability to endure my secretary's knack for confusion. Help me keep calm when she re-minds me of my morning appointments-after lunch. Give me the strength, Heavenly Father, to keep my anger in check when she takes 30 minutes for a mid-morning coffee break while I take phone mes-sages from her friends. I realize that nobody's perfect, but help me, dear Lord, to keep my cool when she hands me a letter to the company president with two erasures, two strike-overs and a misspelled word. I need extra strength, Heavenly Father, to hold my tongue when she or-ders her groceries and makes hair appointments on my private phone, which is reserved for incoming long distance calls. I realize that assault and battery is against the law, dear Lord, so please restraineth my hand so that I may not do violence. Amen. -The Boss Dear Boss: I believe in prayer but if it's as bad as it sounds, you need to look in the want ads-between prayers, of course.