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Advertising People
I was working in IT at an advertsing agency in London, at 2pm on a Friday one of the owners strolled in and put two phones on our desk saying "I want all my information transferred from my old phone to the new phone I've just bought and I'm leaving the office in two hours" We ran round like idiots setting up email, copying his address book, etc. and go it done as he was walking out. My boss got a call on the Saturday with screaming that his phone didn't work, threatening him with the sack when he got back, etc. My boss asked where the director was calling from as if possible he'd go there straight away and fix it - the reply was "I'm on a boat in the middle of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam on a friends satellite phone" to which my boss calmly replied that he didn't think Orange would have a signal in the Mekong Delta.
(Thu 24th Sep 2009, 13:41, More)

» Thrown away: The stuff you loved and lost.

2000AD
In the early 1980's I inherited piles and piles of 2000AD comics from my older brothers and lovingly catalogued and organised them and each week for several years added the next carefully read one to the pile. Even saved up money to buy the few missing copies.

Came home from school and my Mum said she'd been to the dump and there were loads of 2000AD's in the skips so I immediatley asked if she'd brought any home to which she replied "No, because we've cleared your room and they were the ones from under your bed."

What a fucker!
(Tue 19th Aug 2008, 13:49, More)

» Procrastination

Milk Bottles
Late Eighties in a student flat in Sheffield, we'd buy a glass pint of milk every day and never take the empties back instead just stand them in the back garden. After the full three terms the back garden was a shimmering collection of green water filled bottles which at the right time of day looked lovely - smell wasn't so good though.
(Fri 14th Nov 2008, 10:54, More)