You must be kidding me
Oct. 10th, 2003 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angelchickenThere is a client. Crotchety Man (CM for short).
CM is in is seventies and kind of a luddite. He has no computer, so all of his letters, envelopes et al. are done by the service center, aka me.
No problem. I know office. I'm good.
Except.
CM is kind of set in his ways. And he has a Rolodex. A Rolodex that is so old it is discontinued. As are it's cards. So CM has 23 rolodex cards left. After that, the entire supply of these -- specific -- rolodex cards is completely exhausted, never to be seen or heard from again.
So every card has to be perfect.
These cards aren't perforated. They can't go through a laser printer.
No, no.
They have to be hand typed. In a type writer. They are the size of an average business card (well, maybe a quarter inch longer) and they have to be hand typed. And there can be no mistakes. At all.
No pressure.
Crap.
Do you know how hard it is to type on a rolodex card and get everything perfect and lined up evenly and mistake free? The word impossible comes to mind.
Fortunately in ten minutes I can go back to the farmers market (mmmm, fresh veggies!) and fortify myself with organic yumminess.
Maybe I'll have stir fry tonight. Mmmmm, stir fry. What do you put in stri fry? Other than peppers and chicken (or beef or pork or fish) and sprouts? What is the sauce? Soy? Terryaki? Is there a special stir fry sauce? And what about cheese?
Mmmmm, cheese.
CM is in is seventies and kind of a luddite. He has no computer, so all of his letters, envelopes et al. are done by the service center, aka me.
No problem. I know office. I'm good.
Except.
CM is kind of set in his ways. And he has a Rolodex. A Rolodex that is so old it is discontinued. As are it's cards. So CM has 23 rolodex cards left. After that, the entire supply of these -- specific -- rolodex cards is completely exhausted, never to be seen or heard from again.
So every card has to be perfect.
These cards aren't perforated. They can't go through a laser printer.
No, no.
They have to be hand typed. In a type writer. They are the size of an average business card (well, maybe a quarter inch longer) and they have to be hand typed. And there can be no mistakes. At all.
No pressure.
Crap.
Do you know how hard it is to type on a rolodex card and get everything perfect and lined up evenly and mistake free? The word impossible comes to mind.
Fortunately in ten minutes I can go back to the farmers market (mmmm, fresh veggies!) and fortify myself with organic yumminess.
Maybe I'll have stir fry tonight. Mmmmm, stir fry. What do you put in stri fry? Other than peppers and chicken (or beef or pork or fish) and sprouts? What is the sauce? Soy? Terryaki? Is there a special stir fry sauce? And what about cheese?
Mmmmm, cheese.
