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Cross-cultural confusion from a congenital curmudgeon.

September 27, 2011 at 10:15am
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So it’s early in the morning

And my boss had a live radio interview. I listened in, as I do from time to time, on the internet. Then, while he’s right there talking, I get a call from a the number that I know he’s using for the interview. And for a little tiny second my brain didn’t know what world I was in. I said ‘hello?’ like I was about to talk to somebody from another dimension, so you know, casual but still reflecting the potential significance.

It was John all right, and I thought it was pretty clever of him to be on the radio and on the phone at the same time until I realized there was about a 30 second delay between the streaming radio and the broadcast. And everything was resolved.

But for one second, I lived in this magical fantasy superhero world. And the whole time, I was eating a really good plum.

I’m telling ya, it was sweet as a nut.