Nobody wants their problem solved. They want it to stop hurting. Why rational people reach for the tape, and why I still can't let it go.
Tag: Work
The Fountain Two Blocks Over
Twenty years ago I worked in a cigar-smoke office and escaped to a fountain in a downtown lobby on my lunch break. Today my office is two blocks from it.
The Shoestring
The truck died on the side of the road and nobody was coming out. I fixed the throttle linkage with the shoestring out of my own boot, and two weeks later my manager wanted to talk to me about proper notice.
