Friday, March 18, 2005

Customers, coloring, and cockroaches

Well, my customer came to visit today.  It was a whirlwind day in which I got NOTHING accomplished at my desk.  I mean NOTHING.  That puts me a full day behind when I get there on Monday.  To top that off, one of the other reps on my team (there are three of us) will be gone Monday-Wednesday.  Oh goody.  I'll be doing two days worth of my work, and a day worth of hers, all in 8 hours.  I'm happy to be employed, I'm happy to be employed, I'm happy to be employed.

While I was walking the customer through the lab, we passed one doorway as an employee yelled (real loudly), "HOLY CRAP!"  Now, considering which employee it was, I'm surprised she didn't drop the "F" bomb, but she didn't.  I found out later that she saw a huge cockroach crawl out from under a box.  She didn't think anyone would believe her about it's size, so she killed it and took it to the guy who contracts our pest control.  I love it!  The customer did nothing more than laugh at her outburst, and I changed the subject.

Monica asked me to print off some coloring pages tonight, and she's coloring them for people I work with.  Mostly the ones that she hears me talk about, and one for my boss that has a note saying, "thanks for giving my mom a great job."  Then it happened.  She asked me to google up a picture of a cockroach, so she could write a note to Rebecca.  The note says, "Rebecca, it's OK that you said Holy Crap in front of mom's customer.  Love, Monica."  Only one of my kids.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome!   Your daughter sounds like she is just as cool as you and your Ma.

Russ

Anonymous said...

Monica and Brook would get along great! Where did you get the coloring pages? I am running out of them!

Anonymous said...

The coloring pages that I printed last night were on Neopets, but they are all over the web!  Here's a link: http://www.freecoloringpages.com/