Busy, busy times around the office. Between meetings, qualification documents and a scheduled relaunch of a website (plus house-hunting in my off-hours), I hardly know if I’m coming or going.
Apparently, I hardly know who I am anymore, either.
Why, you ask? Yesterday, before hurrying out the door for a meeting out of town, I placed a couple of follow-up phone calls. On my last call, while I was also packing my briefcase, I said:
Hi! This is Shannah All…(1/2 SECOND PAUSE)…oway
with Urban Design Group and I’m just calling…
During that pause, I was thinking:
Alloway? Was I actually about to say Alloway?
I haven’t been an Alloway for almost 10 years!!
Why on earth would I say Alloway?
Should I start over and say Hayley?
Would they think I’m crazy if I started over?
How would I explain to them that I said the wrong name?
I wouldn’t sound very credible.
Actually, I think I’d sound a little looney.
Maybe I am becoming a little looney.
I wonder if I should take some time off for mental health.
I don’t really have time to take off.
Well, that’s not true. I have the vacation time.
I have a problem with priorities if I can’t make time for vacation.
What was I saying again?
Oh yes – I was introducing myself.
I might as well plow through.
They won’t realize I should have said Hayley anyway.
ACK!!!
um, wow.
Of course you could have said “Shannah All….oway Hayley” and been totally off the hook! I know, 1/2 second of thought didn’t allow time for that resolution, right?
That’s the first thing that came to MY mind.
Love the picture, by the way.
I think it is time for some time away silly girl.
I know! It’s just ridiculous, right? I would have laughed on the phone, but I’m sure they would have hung up on me thinking I was a teenager prank calling.
Crack me up! Funny story, funny pic … and VERY clever suggestion from boacnstr.