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His Name Is Nick

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Nick Soutter.   A new friend introduced by a friend.

A new friend who is wildly intelligent, and extremely kind and patient with a girl who said, ‘um, yeah.  It’s broken.  It’s totally broken.’ 

It is all about servers and complicated (to me) stuff that I could not seem to make work.  And apparently, you know, a girl should upgrade things once and a while.  

Whatever.

What do I really know about upgrading?   I am still driving the same car

It was as simple as a few e-mails, a couple of phone calls and a nice Viola!  It’s done.  All set.

Mr. Nick rocks. 

 

I am hoping he can work the same magic on The Client - the client who has called no less than 5 times to trim the menu.  The Client who keeps rattling on and on about tight budgets.  The same client who said, “…just a simple buffet station in between the martini bars.”

I had to ask.

“Did you say martini bars…sss… as in plural?”

“Oh I misspoke.  What I meant to say was the martini bar and the daquiri bar.”

“You are having a martini bar and a daquiri bar.”

“Yes.  Oh, and a wine bar.  Well, beer and wine.”

“But your budget for the food is…”

“Limited.  We are really trying to pull this thing together on a shoe string.  The band was astronomical, but so worth it.”

“You have a band?”

“We do.  And they are fantastic.”

“So you have a martini bar, a wine bar, a daquiri bar… and a band…”

“Yes!  So much fun.”

I see.  We have enough money to bring Crazy Cousin Cathy into a drunken stupor while doing the electric slide, but we don’t have enough money to provide her with enough food to vomit in the coat closet.

I see.

 

Mr. Nick… it’s broken, it’s totally broken…

 

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