I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
And so the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're goin' through

Friday, September 25, 2009

Story Bone

Misoverheard at work, "Make the effin' fairy lowercase."

And here I thought fairies we all small caps.

2 comments:

Jarrett Rush said...

So what was really said?

Steve Buchheit said...

It was "Make the 'F' in 'Fairy' lowercase." The conversation was with a client about a wallpaper catalog (and if you want to know what design hell is, do a wallpaper catalog). I believe one of their product lines had fairies printed on it, so they wanted us to decapitalize the word where it appears in the description.

As the CSR was repeating the instructions (the mini cubicle farm I'm in now permits very little phone privacy), I started laughing. Other people asked what I found so funny. I said, "I believe (csr's name) just said, 'Make the effin' fairy lowercase.'" He then repeated it about two minutes later to wrap up the call. Everybody cracked up then.

We explained it to the CSR, who when he talked to the client next (remember when I said "design hell") which was 20 minutes later, the client also got a laugh out of it.