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  • detritus1

    Just turned up to work later than usual, but half an hour early for a meeting I had arranged for 1pm. On the way in found myself hungry and despite having increasing reservations about eating pork, bought two bacon rolls - two - which I ate as I walked. Was finishing stuffing one into my face when I walk through the front doors to the studios and see sitting in the cafe the usual array of bright young things and a chap in a suit, looking out of place and know instantly he's my meet.

    Why turn up for a meeting half an hour early? Why?

    My walk is 40+ minutes, and I had emergent meat sweats to boot, so am basically a shambolic sweating mass of incoherence. Can't shake hands because of bacon grease and ketchup drips. A great first impression.

    Never turn up early. Never.

    • Is he Japanese?shapesalad
    • No, very English. My Japanese clients have never turned up early. Nor particularly late either, mind.detritus
    • he turned up early as detritus' place is so far north he assumed it'd take far longer to get there than it did.hans_glib
    • "i don't want to keep the talent waiting, no no no."hans_glib
    • gosh he must be sooo creative, i mean look at him - sweaty, covered in grease and ketchup... god, i can taste the talent!"hans_glib
    • I've got the obligatory Italian-supplied fisherman's wool hat and over-sized scarf on, so he used the word 'artistic' at least three times. I am very much not.detritus
    • grease and hat say otherwisehans_glib
    • scarf, hat... instead of PSB, we should try to photoshop identikit how we imagine QBN's to appear.shapesalad

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