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TTC After a Loss
bahamama
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NTTCAL-related, but true story about someone's bad day...
bahamama
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Work has been crazy busy lately, so when a vendor visiting from out-of-town asked my colleague and me to a fancy dinner tonight, we said - HECK YA! How about we leave work early, dinner at 5 pm??
Although we are a few minutes late, we're the first to arrive. We sat down at the bar. After awhile, we started to get worried and I emailed him my cell phone number. After a little while longer, I tried calling him. He didn't pick up. After a wait of over *AN HOUR AND A HALF*, we decide to give up and I call to the vendor to tell him so. Still he didn't pick up. We agreed that he must have one heck of a story for us in the morning as to why he was a no-show.....
My commute home isn't so bad, but my colleague commutes about an hour by train. I dropped him off at the station and started to head home.
I immediately get a phone call from a phone number I don't recognize. The caller is 1) clearly drunk, 2) identifies himself as an actor and friend of the vendor, and 3) asks if I can call the guy because he can't find him. Umm yeah - I can't find him either! I asked a lot of questions, and half-way through decided to conference in my colleague because there was no way he was going to believe me in the morning!
So this is the story: Our vendor went to the bar in his hotel earlier this afternoon and recognizes the actor from some movies. They proceed to get drunk. At some point, vendor leaves hotel bar to go to his room and leaves his cell phone behind with the actor. He ends up passing out in his room. Fast forward awhile and the actor wants to go home, apparently he's not staying at that hotel. He's trying to track down our vendor so that he can get a ride and return his phone. So - he was calling people in the recent call history of the vendor's phone asking them if they knew where he was. I called the hotel to ask if they could take the phone from this guy and check that our vendor was at least safe in his room. Unfortunately the actor had already jumped in a cab (probably with the phone), but vendor was apparently fine, had been sleeping it off in his room. Very drunk, very tired, but otherwise fine. He seemed to think that he had "a friend" call to cancel our dinner reservations. Um.. yeah.. not so much....
So - I picked up a pizza tonight and jumped on here to share my story. I had to tell someone! Can you imagine what kind of a morning he'll have tomorrow when he realizes what happened?? And how many clients did this guy call??? Did he call vendor's boss?? Yikes... it's been an interesting night!
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Re: NTTCAL-related, but true story about someone's bad day...
thats all I can think about!!
Sorry to be a downer, but I don't know!
He was hard to understand since he was slurring his speech pretty bad. I spoke with 3 people at the hotel and no one recognized him as a famous actor. They just knew there was a drunk guy in the lobby holding two phones.... For all I know, vendor could have just been flattering him.
We were just shocked that we got a much much much bigger story than we could have even imagined when we teased about it earlier... I think our next business dinner with him should involve a private jet. What do you guys think?? hehe
No, not at all! We're just fame whoress, apparently. I hope he doesn't get fired, but he really only has himself to blame if he does. YIKES is right!