I get a call at twenty minutes after nine one Saturday night.
It's Eddie!
Eddie has a concern.
Seems some...miscreant has smoked several cigarettes in our men's room, making rather a mess n the process.
Eddie wants to know what I, his Benevolent Overlord, want him to do about the situation.
"Well, Eddie, I'd like you to clean up the mess, and maybe spray some air freshener around." (Rule #4--Clean what's dirty.
"Oh.". Eddie gets this...tone. He's confused about something.
"What is it?"
"Oh, isn't smoking inside illegal?"
"Yes it is, Eddie, and now you have a mess. Clean it up."
Cue several minutes of Eddie trying to get me to understand that something... illegal...has happened. And trying to draw out the authorized procedures for dealing with this situation.
Eddie has never in all his days ever allowed anything to be easy. Ever. Give him a three step procedure, and he's going to have detailed questions about steps 12 and M.
You may know Eddie.
I convinced Eddie to clean the fricking mess up and spray some fricking air freshener around. Twenty minutes of my life (I'm not a Young Man any more, I can't spare those!), gone.
Half an hour prior to working up the guts to call me, Eddie called Vera, my Second in Command.
She had, almost word for word, the same conversation.
And half an hour prior to calling Vera, he called Annie, and before her Sonia, and before Sonia, Gail.
Eddie's not the only one of my Loyal Minions who does this kind of thing, but he is the master of it.
If anybody knows a cure for this, I'm all ears.
It's Eddie!
Eddie has a concern.
Seems some...miscreant has smoked several cigarettes in our men's room, making rather a mess n the process.
Eddie wants to know what I, his Benevolent Overlord, want him to do about the situation.
"Well, Eddie, I'd like you to clean up the mess, and maybe spray some air freshener around." (Rule #4--Clean what's dirty.
"Oh.". Eddie gets this...tone. He's confused about something.
"What is it?"
"Oh, isn't smoking inside illegal?"
"Yes it is, Eddie, and now you have a mess. Clean it up."
Cue several minutes of Eddie trying to get me to understand that something... illegal...has happened. And trying to draw out the authorized procedures for dealing with this situation.
Eddie has never in all his days ever allowed anything to be easy. Ever. Give him a three step procedure, and he's going to have detailed questions about steps 12 and M.
You may know Eddie.
I convinced Eddie to clean the fricking mess up and spray some fricking air freshener around. Twenty minutes of my life (I'm not a Young Man any more, I can't spare those!), gone.
Half an hour prior to working up the guts to call me, Eddie called Vera, my Second in Command.
She had, almost word for word, the same conversation.
And half an hour prior to calling Vera, he called Annie, and before her Sonia, and before Sonia, Gail.
Eddie's not the only one of my Loyal Minions who does this kind of thing, but he is the master of it.
If anybody knows a cure for this, I'm all ears.
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