Annoyance 036

One of my employers, whom I also consider to be sort of a friend, and I were talking the other day, and he said he would like to have a dictation system. 

I said, "Oh yeah, what for, you never dictate anything.  You just ask me to write all of your letters and prepare most of your documents for you, and I do.  You look at them, say they are great, and sign them like you actually wrote them." 

He said "Yeah, but I could leave you instructions for other things I want you to do." 

I said, "Or you could just tell me, or send me an email, which you already do.  But, I know what you are saying, because I have often thought I would like one of those handheld digital recorders to carry around with me all the time, so that when I have a thought that I want to remember, I can just put it on the recorder." 

He said, "What?  Why would you need one of those?  I could see you wanting one, if you were a lawyer or something." 

Indignation set in.

I said, "So, what you are saying is that "only important people should have digital recorders, and that lawyers are important people?"

He said, "Oh no, don't get mad with me." 

I said, "I'm not mad with you.  I am simply being disdainful of your idiotic thought which should never be put on permanent record to prove how haughty you can sometimes be.  I will have you know, that I like to write when I get home, and that I often have worthwhile thoughts which I would like to hold onto for later use or further thought and exploration." 

I went on to say, "Have you ever heard of Socrates, Voltaire, Plato, Einstein?" Last I checked, they were thinkers in spite of not being lawyers."

He said, "Okay okay, point taken."

I said, "Maybe you should try writing your own letters for a change.  Maybe then, you could aspire to be a thinker -- a philosopher or a poet, or someone working on being exceptionally well rounded or an all out genius."

At least, that's pretty close to what I said to him.  I left out the cursing.


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