Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Overheard Conversation Of The Day. For Yesterday

I had a particularly needy client on the phone yesterday. Well, he'd called in to talk to me. I had him on hold for a second and when I went to take him off he was clearly involved in an important conversation with someone in his workplace on the topic of who the hell knows what. This is what I heard:

'What? No. There's a bloke that talks about rhinos. Oh Jeremy, hi."

Umm. What?

This guy likes to book meetings for no apparent reason and then come in and waste everyone's time. He brought in 3 of his colleagues for a meeting which was completely unnecessary, so I attempted to curb this enthusiasm by holding the meeting in the doorway of the office. I didn't offer anyone a chair, so we stood in the doorway and talked for five minutes before they felt awkward and left.
I thought this may have disheartened this guy adequately.
But no.
Unfortunately my Poor Meeting Skills display didn't deter this guy and he has organised a meeting for November. When I asked him what for he said he wasn't sure but he's bringing someone else in with him. Brilliant. Let's come in and talk about stuff. Perhaps you can bring the bloke that talks about rhinos and we can discuss endangered species and the effects of deforestation.
Or maybe I could really charm them with a brief presentation on my interest in babies and necrophilia.
Sure to win their hearts and minds.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

"I have a cat hat"
"I thought it was a rabbit"

jhcrow said...
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jhcrow said...

Yep, that's the same guy.
Maybe the hat wasn't rabbit enough...
I think that's where the problem inherently lies.
I put it to all makers of rabbit hats- More Rabbity dammit!!

Anonymous said...

But it was supposed to be a cat hat. So your petition should be "more catty dammit!".

Oooh...someone commented and deleted. Was it you Jeebus?

jhcrow said...

A ha. You have caught me out this time, scoundrel.
One day I shall slip one of these 'mistakes' past you and the world shall be mine...
-Fade out to maniacal laughter-
PS: I wrote an even stupider comment, then deleted it. I'm not some kind of crazy blog censor.

Anonymous said...

you totally are...or will you sensor this too?

will the truth ever be known that jeebus h crow is a crazy blog censor?