ATTEMPT 1 My voice reverberated through the entire conference hall: "Wait! Hold on, I wanted to ask you something!" But already, Cole had booked it, too engaged in the conversation of his peers.
ATTEMPT 2 He was who I had always wanted to be: a sleek pressed shirt, a suit without a tie, a number of the most engaged leaders in the industry cloaked around him. I had my moment, but too easily I had lost it: already he was aloft in the crowd, his jacket hanging casually off his finger as it draped his back. I couldn't stand it, being so close...
"Hey, wait up! I have a question for you!"