An Actual Conversation Between Me And My Boss
Boss: Hey, Dan, are you a basketball person?
Me: Not really, no.
Boss: Are you a sports person?
Me: Only vaguely.
Boss: Oh.
Me: Why, do you have tickets or something?
Boss: No, I'm just reading this story here, and the writer references the NBA All-Star Games, plural.
Me: Yeah, that should be singular.
Boss: Yeah, that's what I thought.
Me: [Brief pause to check Wikipedia, even though I know I'm right, but still live in paranoid fear of being mocked like I was in middle school for not knowing such manly things.] Yeah, there's just one a year.
Boss: Ah. I didn't know if they had them for separate conferences or something.
Me: Doesn't seem so.
Boss: Or I figured they might be segregated.
Me: [Stunned silence.]
Comments: 4
That anecdote was entertaining even before the last line or two, which are just an award-winning conclusion. Fantastic.
Segregation tu-day, segregation tommorra, segregation for-evah. Yes i believe Wallace was talking about professional sports.
so...your boss is what -- 140 years old?
I guess the games could be referring to the rookie game played that same weekend as well as the actual all-star game.
Sep 6, 2007 7:00 AM