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Quick one (note: I work at a newspaper, a privately-owned corporation).
A customer was asking how to go about placing an ad to sell his car. After explaining the rates to him, he asked about payment and I said either credit card over the phone, or he could come in person to our office and pay cash.
"So," he says, "you're in City Hall, right?"
Yeah, sure. Little office under the back stairs, bare 25 watt lightbulb hanging over my desk. Got a 1925 typewriter and a Fisher Price “Li’l Publisher” printing press. Better hurry down, though. We’re running out of restroom paper towels to print on.
A customer was asking how to go about placing an ad to sell his car. After explaining the rates to him, he asked about payment and I said either credit card over the phone, or he could come in person to our office and pay cash.
"So," he says, "you're in City Hall, right?"
Yeah, sure. Little office under the back stairs, bare 25 watt lightbulb hanging over my desk. Got a 1925 typewriter and a Fisher Price “Li’l Publisher” printing press. Better hurry down, though. We’re running out of restroom paper towels to print on.