Thursday, April 24, 2008

[meetings] more than one a day over here means fiasco

In this country, arrangements are fluid. You can make a time, arrange a place and the other will turn up at another time in another place or just won't turn up at all.

Throw into the mix a friend who has to attend to an ailing parent and a client who needs to find a time with you today and you're in a free floating mess involving multiple taxis and uncertainty.

When you don't have a mobile phone to sort it all out, so that it all has to prearranged before you leave home and tack onto that two commitments later in the afternoon which you can't escape plus one uncertain and guilt-ridden tryst - well, that's possibly your own normal lifestyle over there but it ain't mine.

Nice rule of thumb over here that each meeting you add to the mix exponentially increases the chances of it all falling apart.

Update: phone call from the office two minutes ago that on top of that they'd like me to present myself in there at a time which cuts across two of those meetings.

Fun day ahead.

7 comments:

  1. Well that sounds like you have hectic day ahead of you :)

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  2. They sound like Italians regarding arrangements.

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  3. That would drive me loopy but sometimes we have to fit in with whoever is paying our bills even if they are pains.

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  4. I think you wished your messy day on to me!!!

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