On April 9, 2012 at 01:11, gwilly said...
I once called about a bad jar of mayonnaise, all I got was some coupons for free product.
I once used an online form to complain about a quadrille paper pad that fell apart after you ripped off the first page. Told 'em it was useless. They sent me a coupon for four more.
Why I want more of a useless product?
Re the :connector:
They are joiners and very social. In conversation they have a way of disarming their interlocutor and having him open up and share intimacies more quickly than others. They keep in contract with an amazing number of people and their list of acquaintances is vast and not just based on geography. They known and are known by seemingly everyone.
The guy I work with who does mostly commercial projects is one of these. The epitome of his connectedness showed one night a dozen years ago. We were waiting for a burrito place to close in one of the ten or so sets of embarking places at LA International Airport (sorry, that's not the right term, but my brain isn't quite awake yet). On a random Tuesday night, after 10 PM, he saw two people he knew who came in on flights.
Once I did some work for Nancy Wilson of Heart. When I told my buddy about this, he said to ask her if she remembered the kid with long green hair from Seattle's Rock-n-Bowl, from about fifteen years before. Yup. Him. She did. Amazing.
On the latest job we worked on together, I saw three people come up to him and ask if they hadn't worked together before... and they worked it out. They had, one more than a dozen years before.
And this guy's list of contacts is ridiculously long.
Last edited by Ernie Gilman on April 9, 2012 12:32.
