Philippa has arranged us an interview with an agency that deals with house-sitters. I said it was nice of her to arrange these things without talking to me about them first. She said “I tried to talk to you but you thought it was more important to play some stupid sports game on the Wii”
I said “It wasn’t ‘some stupid sports game’ - it was Madden ‘13 and it was a Christmas present”
Then we didn’t speak for a few hours, then she said I should consider buying a suit.
Later, she asked if I would be interested in doing some role-play.. I got very excited and said ‘Yeah, baby! What kind of thing did you have in mind?’
She said “I’ll be the interviewer first and ask you some tough questions, then we’ll swap.” Talk about a passion-killer. I realised that I wasn’t going to get any peace until I let her talk to me about it so we sat down with a bottle of wine and she wittered on for about 45 minutes. Some of it made sense; some of it was just manic rambling. When she finally paused for breath I said “Isn’t the most important thing the fact that we’re already experienced? Won’t a good reference from David and Becky be far more useful than anything we might say in an interview?”
Philippa’s answer went on for about 25 minutes, but I can’t really tell you what she said. Thank God for strong rioja……
RC 7-1-13
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