Colleague: I haven’t received that package you guys sent
Mike D: Really? We sent on Thursday next day air.
Colleague: uh oh.
Mike D: Hold on a sec
I open up UPS.com and check the tracking number. It says “Delivered. Porch.”
Mike D: The package is on your porch.
Colleague: What?
Mike D: check your porch. The package is on your porch.
…
Colleague: Wow. Yes it is. Well done.
Category: Conversations
It could be worse…
Mike D: I think I have to come into work this weekend.
Sander: Bummer.
Mike D: yeah, I suppose it could be worse though.
Sander: that’s true. your office could be full of snakes.
Not to make light of tragic tornados but…
We had a sales rep come up from Alabama yesterday.
Sales rep: “and I’m headed off to San Francisco tomorrow.”
Mike D: “oh man, that’ll be nice and warm!”
Sales rep: “yeah, but I came from Alabama. When I left it was 70 degrees”
Mike D: “ahh. well, I guess this is chilly for you then.”
Sales rep: “it is… although right now we have tornadoes in Alabama”
Mike D: “you have family there?”
Sales rep: “Wife and three girls. When I left I reminded them where the basement was and wished them luck.”
A class discussion
On the topic of environmental regulations.
Professor:
One particular interesting story is about a barge that was sent out of New York. It had hazardous waste in it and they wanted to dump it out at sea. This was before the laws completely prohibited the practice. So the barge goes out and New York says it can’t dump it within their waters. So the barge goes south. And as they go they keep meeting resistance. No one will let them dump the garbage. I mean, if it was solid waste? If it was solid waste they could have put it in a landfill. But obviously this was something atypical. They got all the way down to Costa Rica. And still… nothing. So what happened? Where did they have to go?
Classmate:
New Jersey?