Tag: Humour
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Where Is My Laptop?
I got the phone call about five minutes before the meeting was due to start. Someone important needed a laptop set up for a presentation. Knowing the type of laptop and the meeting room setup, I knew it would be easy, just plug the laptop in and the screen would show itself in seconds.…
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This Printer Isn’t Working (Diagnostic Ping-Pong)
“Hi I’m just ringing about the printer. It’s not working.” It was the printer just over the partition from me. I had taken it on myself to try and fix it. But I was not a desktop support person any more. I had: Checked the printer had paper, no jams and enough ink Stopped and restarted the printer…
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Sex and Vacuuming : A Game of Mutual Selfishness
Kathy Lette’s If Your Wife Doesn’t Want Sex Then Try Doing the Vacuumming article echoes the Annabel Crabb‘s The Wife Drought re having it all and needing a wife. Like the old expression, “Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage“, there isn’t much of that anymore. Yes, unfortunately, I’ve heard this all before. In the throes…
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What a Training Evaluation Should Be
A friend asked me to put together an evaluation of a course. Here’s what I should have done: Trainer Evaluation Form Please rate your trainer’s performance using the following criteria. Tone of Voice Soft Droning Really Really Enthusiastic Sense of Humour Droll Funny Hilarious Good ROFL Movement Stand Sit Walk Pace March Body Language None…
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That’s Nobody’s Balloon
It happened the other day. I’m shopping and I am filling my basket with fruit and vegetables. I finish, go to the counter and am served. Then I bend down to pick up my basket. There is a balloon attached to a stick in my basket! And there is no child nearby to take it…
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We Cannot Live Together Any More (To My Burglar)
I was burgled this week. After some thought, I’ve decided that the burglar and I cannot live together any more no way never ever. Small change was borrowed and not returned. We haven’t been able to talk about this yet. And a can opener and some men’s toiletries have disappeared. And I’m sensing a growing…
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My Funny Valentines Day
Yesterday at work the conversation turned to Valentine’s Day. And I discovered all my workmates are attached and all planning something special for Valentine’s Day. Which to all you lovers out there is wonderful! But I wonder if anyone had a Valentine’s Day quite like mine. It did start well. Breakfast (High Tea actually) at a…