I got stuck in a conversation at work today with two of the most boring people I’ve ever met in my life. I was in the canteen finishing off my toad-in-the-hole with onion gravy, when I was joined by two representatives of a pet food supplier who were visiting the store for a meeting. Jesus, they were dull. One of them was 45-years-old and judging by his expression and attitude, he hasn’t been laid since he was 20. The other was a young ‘trainee manager’ who had even less enthusiasm about work than I have. What a couple of wankers. The whole conversation was about their latest range of dried dog food, which apparently has added vitamins and some kind of revolutionary state-of-the-art dental chemical that cleans the dogs teeth while they’re eating it. It sounded like something that would be thrown out of Dragon’s Den in seconds. I got so bored in the end that I started flicking peas off my fork and trying to get them into the older blokes shirt pocket. They went on and on and on. I eventually cracked and said “You do realise I have absolutely nothing to do with buying pet products, don’t you?”
The older guy looked quite hurt and said “Sorry, mate, I’m not trying to make a sale, I’m just trying to make a conversation”
For the first time in my life, I finished a break early and went back to work to escape.
RC 19-6-13
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