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Silly in Seattle...
Nov. 17th, 2003 08:04 amFor the first time in my trips out here we are, relatively speaking, mob handed. We've 2 techies and my boss on the trip.
Its made things slightly different. One of the Techies is a lad - born in 1979 - who's never been to the US nor the western side before. Its been fun for him. Not. A lot of people in the office were and have been dead jealous of these trips. When we arrived at Heathrow the "Lad" was really happy - likening it to a holiday. However, 12 hours later in Seattle he was not as happy. Especially when I forced him to stay awake until 10pm.
"I'm tired!" he said, "I'm going to sleep tonight!"
"No," I replied, "you're going to be wide awake at 4am with the rest of us!"
He laughed. He was awake and then made the mistake of having another early night. Fatal!
So, of the 4 of us, 3 are all roughly 34, the "lad" is 24. He feels a little marginalised, especially when the 3 of us started singing the song from Chigley to which, strangely or not, we all know the words.
But then we get to tonight. We went to Daniels Broiler. I treated the team to a really stonkingly good meal. The "lad" thought it was ok but from the window of the restaurant you can see Hooters. So he wanted to go...
I'll do "the Hooters story" tomorrow. Its funny. You probably couldn't write a sitcom script that good. Ripping up the check in a bar is never ever a way to make a good impression.
On the plus side our waitress really like to be spanked and have her hair pulled.
*sigh* I really really am too old for this.
Its made things slightly different. One of the Techies is a lad - born in 1979 - who's never been to the US nor the western side before. Its been fun for him. Not. A lot of people in the office were and have been dead jealous of these trips. When we arrived at Heathrow the "Lad" was really happy - likening it to a holiday. However, 12 hours later in Seattle he was not as happy. Especially when I forced him to stay awake until 10pm.
"I'm tired!" he said, "I'm going to sleep tonight!"
"No," I replied, "you're going to be wide awake at 4am with the rest of us!"
He laughed. He was awake and then made the mistake of having another early night. Fatal!
So, of the 4 of us, 3 are all roughly 34, the "lad" is 24. He feels a little marginalised, especially when the 3 of us started singing the song from Chigley to which, strangely or not, we all know the words.
But then we get to tonight. We went to Daniels Broiler. I treated the team to a really stonkingly good meal. The "lad" thought it was ok but from the window of the restaurant you can see Hooters. So he wanted to go...
I'll do "the Hooters story" tomorrow. Its funny. You probably couldn't write a sitcom script that good. Ripping up the check in a bar is never ever a way to make a good impression.
On the plus side our waitress really like to be spanked and have her hair pulled.
*sigh* I really really am too old for this.
