Bill Farquharson

Not that there's anything wrong with that
May 25, 2007

Okay, first, know that I am going to a Monday, Wednesday, Friday Blog from now on. Every day was killing me. My hat’s off to comic strip writers. Wow! I had to drive up to Vermont just to get a break. Nothing funny happened there, so I left.

I have been writing this week about funny things that have happened during my travels. For absolutely no reason whatsoever I am going to add to the list of crazy, stupid stories that take up space on my website (www.printtec.com). My travels over the years have yielded some tales that are truly stranger than fiction. You cannot make this stuff up….

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I was in Hawaii with my wife and it was time to go. She flew home through LA and I flew to San Francisco to do a presentation for IBM. This must have been in the early 90’s because the subject was rah-rah digital printing stuff. I literally stepped off of the plane and into the classroom. Needless to say, I was a little tired and a lot more goofy than usual. The presentation was going along fine, until…

With the IBM reps lined up in the back of the room, I turned to the screen and said something like, “If you get into digital printing early, you could be the digital print king of San Francisco.” Turning around to look at my audience, I saw that they were most women, so I added, “Or for that matter, you could be the digital printing queen of San Francisco.”

Hearing myself say those innocent words, I started to laugh. Unfortunately, I couldn’t stop. I mean to tell you, I was in hysterics and had to turn back to the screen to compose myself. When I turned around again, the IBM sales people had their faces in their hands.

My bad.

Posted by Bill Farquharson on May 25, 2007 | Comments (0)