SUSAN L. BLAIR: Big Laugh, Big
Heart
Susan
L. Blair had a work-stopping, what's- that-noise kind of
laugh. Wherever she has worked, co-workers have asked her
to pipe down. "It was high-pitched and loud," said her
sister Leslie Blair.
If she was telling a joke, forget it. The laugh and a
joke were just too much because she was funny. For
example, the day before the World Trade Center attack,
she interviewed a prospective hire for Aon, where she was
a team leader. "She commented to a co-worker that the
person had a fear of heights," Leslie Blair said. "She
said to the co-worker, `I'm thinking to myself that we're
on the 92nd floor of the World Trade Center; you might
want to rethink this job.' "
Though some of her jokes were laced with sarcasm, they
were not aimed as darts, Ms. Blair's sister said.
In fact, Ms. Blair, 35, from East Brunswick, N.J., had
a big heart. She liked getting laughs out of cranky
tollbooth workers.
"I would ask her why she cared whether that guy smiled
and she would say, `I just do.' She thought life was too
short to go around with our shields up."
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