This morning on the train from Nottingham into London the “train manager” made an announcement: “Due to health and safety reasons we are only allowed to take 2 bicycles on this train, will passengers who want to bring a bicycle on the train please reserve a place holder, as in future they will be refused […]
Dead Connection
A lady in America lost her father to cancer. His old telephone supplier are chasing her for the £300 he owes them (since he died), despite the fact that she has no legal obligation to pay. She is, understandably, a tad upset. Innovative things that they could have done instead: Apologised profusely and cancelled the […]
Better Sex in 8 Seconds
Information is accumulating at an alarming rate In 2008 the number of web pages exceeded 1 trillion, at a second a page it would take 32,000 years to read them all. This is a problem. With so much information how do you get people to pay attention to your information. How do you stop them […]
Salty Coffee
I worked for a coffee shop. It was great, we only had one problem; occasionally there was a bit of a mix up at the serving hatch. The salt and sugar were in similar containers. Sometimes we put a pinch or two of salt in our customer’s coffee, not very often, and then just a […]
Why?
I have two children: My youngest (two) asks why. Why are we going in the car? Why should I wear boots? Why is the sky blue? My eldest (eight) asks why. Why is there global warming? Why are people fighting in Bahrain? Why is the sky blue? It does my head in. But the thing […]
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