We relate to the people we work with in various ways, some professional
and some personal, and it can be delightful when these two things overlap.
Yesterday I was talking with a co-worker about a superfluous
document that our forms committee is diligently trying to remove from the packages
we send to members. In fact, this person
thought this removal might already have occurred, but when I spoke to a person
in the know, he explained it would still take some doing before we saw the last
of it.
This morning, I told this authority that I had described the
document’s status as ‘clinging tenaciously to the side of a cliff’, to which he
quickly replied, “That’s right, and let me tell you, it sure isn’t Ingo Montoya
at the top waiting to help him up, either!”
The Princess Bride is one of my favourite films, and the
reference so well executed I had to exchange a high-five with him while I
laughed, before adding, “You know, given the difficulty in executing these
kinds of technical changes, the ‘Cliffs of Insanity’ are as good a description
as any…”
He chuckled in agreement.
“Sometimes it feels like, ‘Simplicity? You keep on using that word… I do
not think it means what you think it means.’”
“Inconceivable!” I replied.
I’m sure many of the people around us simply thought we were displaying signs of sudden onset mental illness (which is ridiculous; it has been obvious to my family for years), but some passersby familiar with the source material nodded in agreement, and walked away smiling.
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