Entry for May 07, 2007

My secretary is on holiday! She has no right to be away. Without her, all my uselessness is exposed for the world to see.
It is not my job to have to remember who my clients are! She is supposed to be there, so that I can peer round the door and whine uselessly: "There's a Mr McCann on the phone. I don't have a Mr McCann."
And she will sigh patiently and say "Yes you do. He's the one that's changed his name from Ramcinski - remember - the one with the complaint about the faulty batch of paper clips - he phoned you two and a half years ago, on a Tuesday morning."
"Yes - but there's no file note is there?" I venture.
"Yes there is, it's in your Miscellaneous file."
"Well - it's not here in the cabinet under M - WHERE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE". I glare at her accusingly.
"That's because you've left it under that big pile of title deeds you can't be bothered to put away. There - beside those fourteen unwashed coffee mugs and your second hand copy of German Grammar for Beginners."
"No it's not - don't be so...Oh yes. So it is."
"I know."
"Well could you bring it over to me. I can't be bothered to get up out my seat. I am important after all."
"There you are."
"And can you make me a coffee?"
"Don't push it."