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Originally Posted by Doug Taylor  Still feel guilty for calling poor Steve "Bill".
Just texting UAL's hiring captain about NetworkJC before I pulled up to SteveC's hotel, rolled the window down and said, "Are you Bill?"
DOH! |
I thought that was one of the best opening lines I'd ever heard!
It was funny, 'cause I'd just been relaxing in the nice warm Scottsdale sunshine, thinking that while I knew what car Doug would be driving and that I'd surely recognize him from numerous pictures on the site, he'd probably have no idea what I looked like. (Even though there are pictures of me floating around here from past mini-M&G's, it's probably been a couple of years since any have floated up to the surface, so I have this undeserved reputation for being the "mysterious" SteveC.) I see Doug pull into the drive so I get up and start walking towards his car, and I see him scanning the faces of different guys that are standing around the entrance, so I give him a little wave, walk up to the car, and he says "Are you Bill?". I laughed out loud because it so perfectly matched what I imagined his thought process would be as he is about to meet an "unknown" for the first time.
Funny stuff, and completely unintended. Just like conversing on a website where *message sent* can be so different than *message received*. I was lauging at the humorous sarcasm that wasn't intended, and Doug was embarrased about a faux pas that wasn't received.