My work partners continue to provide the most bizarre startles. I posted a few weeks back about my colleague’s discussion of fonts suitable to denote ’embarrassment’ and ‘shame’. I’ve since had rather startling emails from two of our associates.
The first was titled: “Scenario Role Playing” (!!), and commented:
I liked your idea of doing role-playing as part of team training. Can you share your magic with us or point us in the right direction? I’d really like to include something like this in our course… All input welcome.
OMFG. How to respond sensibly?!
Two hours came the following, in response to an article I’d written describing a site that compares your writing style to that of various famous authors – my business writing being comparable to H.P. Lovecraft, apparently. She wrote that:
I think we may be writing soulmates! I ran my [latest] article published today through their wringer ……. I’m not familiar with H.P Lovecraft, it seems he is my mentor.
A coincidence? Not really – for on closer inspection, the title of her article, appearing in an entirely vanilla publication, turned out to be… “Six of the best”.