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STOP THE POO!
August 04, 2005
Wanna hear a funny story?
This afternoon, I hit Dooce, from there, I hit Bryan's site, which ultimately led me to this link. (I innocently and unknowingly click on some links and BAM! I'm at indybay.com of San Francisco.)
I thought it was so funny I just about snorted my hippee-tree-hugging green tea out of my nose. Sincerely... I almost did. I immediately copied the url and pasted it into an email and sent it off to Robert, who emailed back feigning heart-felt support for the president ~ "Bad Dog! "
I felt a bit slighted... seeing how he "poo-pooed" the story, so I emailed him back ~ "Hey, when you're the king of poo.... it's important to raise the flag and stake your claim."
To which he replied ~ "Long live the King! Raise your swords and pooper scoopers. Long live the King!"
It was silly fun, really.
Have I mentioned I've been working like a dog lately? I have two RFP's to submit, and numerous changes to a wonderful project that is a thrill to work on, but the changes are coming at the worst time imaginable. It's been a bit harried to say the least. I had to rush the cat to the vet this morning because she's keeps throwing up, and my cell phone suddenly just stopped working. I've also been feeling very sad and distracted over the death of my step-grandmother 2 days ago. The week is a total blur already... and there's still 2 days to go. (My grandmother would be proud of all this anti-bush chatter I've been drumming up here... she was a die-hard Democrat, who refused to cave-in to her son-in-law's endless "Bush is My HERO" love-fests.)
So, as I was saying, I've been busy and distracted.
Anyway, I had just uploaded the most recent version of the flash movie to my server and, being the dutifully swift and on-top-of-it freelancer that I am, I quickly composed an email to my client and the video producer the direct link pasted into it.
A micro-second after I clicked the SEND button, I came to an unfortunate realization that the link was wrong, and shit was about to hit the fan ~
"Dear GOD, the last thing I copied wasn't the traning animation address, it was the POO-POO BUSH FLAG ADDRESS!"
"&*(@##*&$#*(@!&$#*@... Where's the fucking STOP button? UNSEND! UNSEND, damnit!"
I sat there with a million alarms going off in my head as my Macintosh made the SWOOSHING noise it makes when an email is sent. It sounded more like the sound of future work with this client (if she's a Republican) being flushed straight down the toilet.
Not a minute had gone by when the phone started ringing. I glanced down at the caller ID and it was ~ yes, you guessed right ~ my client. For a moment I thought, "Don't answer it! Maybe it'll slip her mind after she leaves a message... maybe she'll be struck by a random attack of amnesia in the next 10 mintues.... DON'T PICK UP THE PHONE!"
Of course, being the professional tha I am, I picked up the phone.
Her voice was pleasant, but a bit anxious... she said, "Umm.. I'm really glad you got this done so exceptionally fast, but the link you sent can't possibly be correct. As a matter of fact, I don't quite know how to accurately describe the content of this page... there's a flag and there's a piece of ..."
I interrupted, "Oh my GOD! I'm so SORRY!" My BOYFRIEND (yeah, that's it... it was ROB's fault) sent me that link, and I thought it was so... ahum.... humorous, that I copied it to send to my Republican relatives." (Me in my head ~ "Please, please god, don't let her be a mega-churcher.")
Laughing, "Well, it's nice to know your policital inclinations, but could you send the correct link along?"
(Me in my head, "God, if you get me out of this, I'll LOVE BUSH FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER... I'll never say another anti-BUSH thing again... I'll tell EVERYONE on my blog that I MADE A MISTAKE, I've seen the light! I've had a conversion experience... I'm a REPUBLICAN NOW!")
No sooner had I hung up the phone, and the video producer sent me a reply email saying, "Glad to hear you are ahead of schedule, and comforted by your apparent political preferences... but I don't think that's our show."
Me in my head, "THERE IS a GOD! He thinks I'm a democrat, and it comforted him!"
After much double and triple-checking the correct link, I sent it off to both of them... apologies all over the place... did I mention there was a death in the family, and the cat, who sits under my desk keeps throwing up on my feet.
Seriously... I have never comitted such a stupid, unprofessional, and so over-the-top wicked-funny offense in my 9 years of being in business for myself (do I hear 10?). PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT NUTCASE DEMOCRAT BEHIND THE CURTAIN! I AM THE GREAT OZ-FLASH-GODDESS!
About 5 minutes later, the video guy called and was laughing... he said he thought it was hysterical and asked if there was a homeland security swat team assembling outside my office window.
I said it before, and I'll say it again... there really is a God, but I'm pretty sure He'll overlook all of my sins and forgive me for not converting to Republicansim.
(I swear, this is the last political-post for awhile... the quota's been satisfied.)
Posted by vincent at August 4, 2005 12:00 AM
Comments
This is everybody's email nightmare come to life, sort of like the showing-up-to-school-not-wearing-pants nightmare, except instead you mail a picture of yourself without any pants to everyone on your address list. Glad to hear about the happy ending -- maybe you should consider this niche marketing.
Posted by: flamingbanjo at August 3, 2005 11:08 PM
Oh man, that's awful! You're so lucky! phew! ;)
Posted by: G. at August 4, 2005 04:22 PM
This is the best story ever! (if it had been me, I might not consider it that) Too funny!!! I'm so glad it had a happy ending. I've forwarded that article & picture to my husb and a friend. THanks for the link!
Posted by: Wandering Willow at August 5, 2005 01:17 AM
it could have been MUCH much worse -- one time my account executive accidentally sent an email complaining about the client TO the client instead of her boss (hit reply instead of new message). Huge uh-oh! that reply was not so nice.
i love your vocab- mega churcher. lol.
Posted by: heather at August 5, 2005 09:17 AM