The Dreaded Interview

I simply used to wear waterproofs over my suit, park the bike outside
the company car park, change boots for shoes, and swan in on foot.
Oh, I took the waterproofs off first, obviously.

I've got a car these days.

 

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 17:52, Tosspot [] wrote in

Call beforehand to make sure there is somewhere you can change.
Crappy clothes under the bike gear, good clothes rolled not folded and
wrapped in bin liners.

 

It currently looks like exactly that. Ride the night before. Get
pissed at the hotel, interview with a hangover.

 

Hah! You cannot tempt Satan, I know you speak with a forked tongue.
Sober in a hotel. Never!

 

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I hardly ever get pissed in hotels when I'm working away. I tend to
walk to the nearest half decent pub and get pissed there instead.

This might be difficult next week because I'm working on the pipeline
at Bacton in Norfuck and I'm wondering where the **** I'm expected to
find a hotel without going into one of the holiday resorts.

 

Party time then, eh?

I spent a few nights at a 450USD a night Hilton in New York on the
customer one trip. Sweet.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, muddy

Now *there* speaks a man who's never been to Bacton.

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<looks at map>
Nope, should I go?

 

It's sorted now. I'm stopping in Mundesley (1).

Why do I feel that it might be a good idea to take a decent selection
of reading matter?

(1) Interestingly my spell checker suggests Mindlessly instead of
Mundesley. Says it all about the place.

 

The potential is there to make the biggest gas axe since Piper Alpha.

 

Let's hope not. There was a similar cock up here a few years ago on a
gas pipeline, heck of a fire. Big mess to clean up after.

 

That's not going to happen. I might use the laptop when I'm away but
it won't be from the bar.

 

Sometimes it's the only place in the hotel with wifi.

 

I wouldn't know because I wouldn't be trying to use a laptop in a
hotel bar.

I'll be shocked if they've got broadband in Norfuck so I might not
even try to get an internet connection.