[kj] OT: women & working from home

[ade]

Sounds familiar - did she have a beard?

-----Original Message-----
From: gathering-bounces at misera.net
[mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of Steve Hackett
Sent: 15 February 2006 18:23
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: women & working from home


I sense a series of these Potangaesque mails - thank God I've no work
related incidents

I do have a true story about a German girlfriend, her mother and a plate of
sausages but we'll leave that there!
Ade might know the family in question!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "fatpotanga" <fatpotanga at gmail.com>
To: "The Gathering" <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: women & working from home


> Excellent!
> Your wifes maiden name wasn't fatpotanga perchance...?
>
> Glad my misfortune has made people smile and enticed Janean out of lurkdom
> for a second time in as many days :)
>
> Speaking of underwear, my most embarrassing incident was when we were
> having
> a room redecorated after an insurance claim.
> I'd just got showered but damn, no underwear - it was all clean downstairs
> along with my jeans, so wearing nothing but a T shirt I nipped down to
> finish dressing there.
> My office is downstairs at the back of the house & as we're not overlooked
> I
> thought I'd quickly check my emails. I'd been sat down 30 seconds when
> there's a knock on the window behind me. I hide as much as I can under the
> desk & turn round to see a rapidly retreating decorator who gives me a
> very
> quick thumbs up and vanishes.
> I was soooo embarrassed. I mean how must it have looked a guy sat at a
> computer, naked from the waist down.
> It was even worse having to open the door to the bloke moments later after
> a
> very quick ninja-like dash to the laundry.
> We didn't discuss it.
>
>
>
> On 15/2/06 17:15, "Jiri" wrote:
>
>> Well, there goes my coffee all over the desk again...!
>>
>> At an old PR job I would sometimes work from home during a 3 - 6 a.m.
>> Web launch, where we'd be on conference call with some 15 or so members
>> of the client company. I'd wake up, log on, join the call, then shower
>> and dress for the "normal" work day after the launch was complete.
>> During one of these calls, when my wife came up to me before leaving for
>> work, she announced to me (and everyone else on the call whom I'd never
>> met in person), "Must be nice to work in your underwear!" I never did
>> hear the reaction because I immediately escorted my wife out of the
>> room, but I always told myself my anonymity was preserved by the sheer
>> number of people on the call.
>
> --
> Gimme fat women and loose cars : Live life as in Hull
>
>
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