Subj : New Year's Day.
To   : Brian Klauss
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Mon Mar 01 2021 22:30:13

Hi, Brian!  Recently you wrote in a message to Alexander Koryagin:

BK>  First, colleagues not colleges.


             Thank you.  Many hands make light work....  :-)



BK>  At my former employer, I would be up at 1 or 2am to take
BK>  conference calls with my German colleagues.  They'd wonder
BK>  why I would yawn on the calls.  When I reminded them of
BK>  the time, they'd profusely apologize.


             For many years Dallas & I received telephone calls from Florida at 5:00 AM asking e.g. "What would you like me to do with this load of rutabagas?" I'll leave it to the reader to imagine what some people might have told them to do, but we answered the question with another question... do you realize you're calling somebody's home in Vancouver BC & it's 5:00 AM here?  The truck drivers who made the calls apologized profusely when they understood what was going on. It seemed there was an error in the directory a lot of them were using....  :-)



BK>  Sadly, when I'd make calls convenient to me, they were
BK>  all home and getting ready for bed.  Oh, well, life goes
BK>  on.


             Uh-huh.  The situation I alluded to did clear up after awhile... I guess because the word got around &/or because the error was emended in a later version of the directory.  Now that our aged relatives in the UK have passed on we also keep the ringer volume turned down when we're sleeping, however.  Those who are still alive use e-mail when they have something important to say.  :-))




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 * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)

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