The evening program was planned to be a simple one: There was an invited speaker from the States, who was supposed to share his experience in a brief presentation of half an hour; the dinner was after the talk.
The disaster began when the host forgot to bring a computer for the presentation.
They tried to borrow one from the venue (which was supposed to be a business center), but there was none for hire.
One of the hosts contacted a friend in office at a distance of a 10-minute walk, and it took half an hour before a small lap-top appeared - only to discover that it could not be logged on without an appropriate fingerprint.
Another audience appeared late and brought with him a computer - but it was an Apple and therefore not compatible.
The group of extra-terrestrials remained chaotic for an hour or so; I continued to wonder how Winston Churchill delivered his talks before Powerpoint was invented.
The dinner finally began by 9:40 PM. I left without saying goodbye as soon as I took the appetizer - so that I would not fell hypoglycemic on my way home. As Churchill once said, a gentleman is a man who would not be rude unless he intentionally does so.
PS. After we got married for over six years, Vivian had never heard so much colourful vocabulary from me.
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The extra-terresterials were really serious about this meeting... because I can see that they were directly organizing it without deputizing to their subordinates.
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