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[dr914@autoatlanta.com]

My PERSONAL extension rings: I answer, "914 world headquarters!" The voice on the other end of the line asks "do you know anything about 914s?" I answer: "What is a 914?" He says: "you know a Porsch'!" I say what's a Porsch'? He says I wish you wouldn't be so arrogant! I say "I was just TEASING YOU! We have fun here everyday!!!!! Let's now start all over again!!!!

Bottom line: I HATE people without a sense of humor!!!!!! (Is it the way I speak??)

"Why can't we just all have fun here?"

[bigkensteele]

In a previous job, I volunteered to help coordinate a meeting of our board of directors (it got me out of real work for 2 days). We had to pick these guys up at the airport, jockey them around, book them into the hotel, etc.

At one point, I was working the sign-in table at the hotel, and in walks Frank Carlucci, board member and former Secretary of Defense under Reagan and Bush I. We took his requests, gave him his key, and he went up to his room. About 5 minutes later, he came back down and said "I think that you gave me the wrong room. When I tried to unlock the door, a half-naked man answered wearing nothing but a towel". So I looked down at the sheet and replied "I see here that you have a wakeup call for 5:00am, but I don't see anything about a half-naked man, so it must be a mistake". I thought that this was pretty damned funny, but he looked at me like I had just insulted the wrong 5'3" Italian. One of my coworker friends quickly put him in another room and sent him on his way. After he left, my buddy said "Do you have any idea what you just did?", and I said "Yeah, I just made a joke to another person who apparently had no sense of humor".

It never came back to haunt me, but taught me that there are a lot of people in this world who take things way too seriously. I now try to limit my exposure to that type of people, cause I ain't gonna change.