While the Mods are working feverishly (no joke, we must have about 16-18 discussion threads going on the many aspects of E3!) I thought I would share this with the rest of you and see if anyone has had a similar experience:
Deja V'EU:Whens aspects of EUtopia creep into your daily life.
Example:
Today, preparing for a meeting with the new owner of our office building, I am standing outside his new office, a newly rennovated building across the street. Some of it looks great, some of it is still under repair.
Next to the door is a oak wooden panel. The name of the owner's company has not been put up yet. Instead there are holes in the wood surface where the previous occupant's sign had hung. These holes must have been for the studs or pegs in the back of the lettering for the sign, so that by connecting the dots, you could make out the name of the now-defunct business which had gone backrupt and left this building for purchase by its new owner.
The name of the long-gone previous owner?
The J O S E P H U S Group!
Another example: I'm in Washington, DC at a conference with people from all over the nation (the same meeting with the infamous malfunctioning hotel keyboard). At the reception, I stare up from my chicken satays and mushroom caps and catch the name tag of the middle aged woman getting an appettizer from the steam tray next to me?
L U N D G R E N
I think her first name might have been Sarah. Without thinking I started to say, "Excuse me but you don't happen to know a ...." but I caught myself after the "Excuse me " part, at which point she graciously moved to allow me access to that tray.
There have been others, but these are two recent ones that stand out.
This ever happen to anyone else?
Deja V'EU:Whens aspects of EUtopia creep into your daily life.
Example:
Today, preparing for a meeting with the new owner of our office building, I am standing outside his new office, a newly rennovated building across the street. Some of it looks great, some of it is still under repair.
Next to the door is a oak wooden panel. The name of the owner's company has not been put up yet. Instead there are holes in the wood surface where the previous occupant's sign had hung. These holes must have been for the studs or pegs in the back of the lettering for the sign, so that by connecting the dots, you could make out the name of the now-defunct business which had gone backrupt and left this building for purchase by its new owner.
The name of the long-gone previous owner?
The J O S E P H U S Group!
Another example: I'm in Washington, DC at a conference with people from all over the nation (the same meeting with the infamous malfunctioning hotel keyboard). At the reception, I stare up from my chicken satays and mushroom caps and catch the name tag of the middle aged woman getting an appettizer from the steam tray next to me?
L U N D G R E N
I think her first name might have been Sarah. Without thinking I started to say, "Excuse me but you don't happen to know a ...." but I caught myself after the "Excuse me " part, at which point she graciously moved to allow me access to that tray.
There have been others, but these are two recent ones that stand out.
This ever happen to anyone else?
