Stay FOCUSSED actonb...
If you want an example of just how sad I can be, you can't go past this evening...
I went to a focus group for a social research company. And I didn't just mosey on along, all unconcerned and carefree. NO! I was excited about it. And have been since I was sent a personal invitation last week. And it wasn't just the prospect of $50 easy money either...
Woohoo! I thought to myself... 90 minutes sitting in a little room at the Bulli/Woonona RSL, talking... about my thoughts and opinions. With other people who also have thoughts and opinions. And someone is going to pay us to listen to our thoughts and opinions... I seriously can't think of anything more exciting!
And! Even betterer.... I'm still officially a 'Young Person'. Oh my! So much validation and cheese and cabanossi for nibbles... Life really doesn't get much finer.
And no, I'm not going to tell you what we focussed on, what important things we discussed, coz it's all so terribly terribly secret squirrel...
and also really mundane and even I'm embarrassed about it...
oh, ok then... we discussed phone numbers. memorable phone numbers. What numbers stick in your brain and why.
Interesting fact of the day: Did you know we have a NECC - we all thought it meant National Emergency Crisis Centre, which is a great proactive assertive kinda name. It's actually the National Emergency Call Centre... which is a lot less, um, confidence-inspiring in my opinion. I feel that in the event of some major catastrophe I'd call the NECC and instead of sending the army to dig me out of whichever hole I'd ended up in, they'd put me on hold for 10 minutes, then transfer me through to someone's voice mail.
Oh. And my contribution to the 'what numbers can you think of' question was 9481 1111 (singing along in my head) and 1800 222 702.
Yes, you have permission to mock. As you were...
I went to a focus group for a social research company. And I didn't just mosey on along, all unconcerned and carefree. NO! I was excited about it. And have been since I was sent a personal invitation last week. And it wasn't just the prospect of $50 easy money either...
Woohoo! I thought to myself... 90 minutes sitting in a little room at the Bulli/Woonona RSL, talking... about my thoughts and opinions. With other people who also have thoughts and opinions. And someone is going to pay us to listen to our thoughts and opinions... I seriously can't think of anything more exciting!
And! Even betterer.... I'm still officially a 'Young Person'. Oh my! So much validation and cheese and cabanossi for nibbles... Life really doesn't get much finer.
And no, I'm not going to tell you what we focussed on, what important things we discussed, coz it's all so terribly terribly secret squirrel...
and also really mundane and even I'm embarrassed about it...
oh, ok then... we discussed phone numbers. memorable phone numbers. What numbers stick in your brain and why.
Interesting fact of the day: Did you know we have a NECC - we all thought it meant National Emergency Crisis Centre, which is a great proactive assertive kinda name. It's actually the National Emergency Call Centre... which is a lot less, um, confidence-inspiring in my opinion. I feel that in the event of some major catastrophe I'd call the NECC and instead of sending the army to dig me out of whichever hole I'd ended up in, they'd put me on hold for 10 minutes, then transfer me through to someone's voice mail.
Oh. And my contribution to the 'what numbers can you think of' question was 9481 1111 (singing along in my head) and 1800 222 702.
Yes, you have permission to mock. As you were...
posted by actonb at 10:10 am
5 Comments:
What about Lube mobile's "firteen firty firty-two".
Or the reading writing hotline's "one three double OH! Six triple fiiiiiiiive, oh six".
Or Apollo's "one three two (Apollo!) eight double nine".
Wow, apparently crap advertising works.
Thanks, i now have BOTH of them in my head
The lube mobile and the reading writing hotline were the first ones anyone mentioned.
I really don't think I watch enough commercial TV. (and this is a Good Thing)
Do you guys get the nurse hotline? 24hr a day nurse assistance? In Victoria they are running these ads all the time for it and they are trying really hard to make you remember it - cant recall it for the life of me. Its like car ads - they spend all this money but you can never remember which car is which.
Evil.
Now I have random Canadian jungles with phone numbers in my head.
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