Calling Micheal J Fox...I need your car.

[bob the goat]

So I get this e-mail a little bit ago. Please note the time sent.

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From: [SC]
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 2:43 PM
To: Bob [the goat]
Subject: Revised Quote
Importance: High

Please amend the quote #[XXX] to add the following:
[insert what he was asking for, about a 3 hour job if no one distracted me]

Need this today at 1PM.

[SC]

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(and before anyone says this, Yes they are in my time zone)

I call them.

Me: Hey, so what is this request?

SC: well, they need [blah blah blah, reads the e-mail to me].

Me: I got that part, I meant the part that requires a time machine.

SC: Huh?

Me: Look at when you requested that it be done...is that a typo?

SC: ummmm.....no they have a meeting today at 1pm.

Me: You do know that it is 2:45 PM..?

SC: Yes. (as if to say "What's your point?")

Me: ok......umm.....so you want it a hour an 45 minutes ago?

SC: yes, for a meeting.

Me: so.....are you going to drive your time machine over here, or can I bill you for a rental?

SC: What?

Me: you are asking that something be done in the past. That requires a time machine. I do not have one, so I was asking if you were going to supply your own.

SC: Well, you don’t have to get all snippy.

Me: ok, I have a solution. If you request it by the close of business yesterday then I will promise to have it to you today.

Sc: Just get it to me as soon as you can.

Me: Can do. Tuesday morning it is.

SC: WHAT??!??? I need this for a meeting today!

Me: Well, I have other quotes that came in prior to yours that I'm working on. It is a first come first serve business.

SC: But this will take you 10 minutes to do!

Me: First, it is about 3 hours of work. Second, have you ever been to an amusement park? You wait 2 hours in line for a 2 minute ride. Same principal here. You are not waiting just to wait, you are waiting because someone else asked first.

SC: Whatever.

They hung up.

Seriously. They wanted me to go back in time and do the quote, and they were so inconsiderate that they would not go back in time to make the request.

[Bradester]

I'm sure the SC's car wasn't a DeLorean. That would have been the greatest thing in the world.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Geez, what is it about office furniture that turns people into complete blithering imbeciles?

Requesting something for a meeting that has already taken place, and then arguing when you point this out? That's a special kind of stupid.

[bloodrose]

I'm sure the SC's car wasn't a DeLorean. That would have been the greatest thing in the world.

Totally! If I had a DeLorean I would request stuff in the past just so someone would call me on it and I could drive the car to their workplace and be all like, "yeah, well, it worked for me.".

[Polenicus]

Holy hell, what exactly could cause someone's brain to fart this badly? Most NORMAL people, when its pointed out they requested something be done an hour and 45 mins BEFORE THEY EVEN REQUESTED IT, would simply say 'Oh, crap, sorry! Brainfart!' and/or possibly curse because they realize they lost track of time and the client will now be pissed.

But, to have the reality of TIME BEING LINEAR pointed out, and STILL insist it be done requires a special kind of stupid.

[powerboy]

The Delorean got ran into by Doc's train. So you would need the Train


What kind of drug is that person taking?

[dithers66]

You handled it awesomely. Make them take some responsibility for doing the impossible instead of heaping it all on us.

[depechemodefan]

Obviously that person didn't go to the one o'clock meeting.

[Bright_Star]

Forget the Delorean, get a Tardis! OR better yet...dig up an Egyptian artifact & use it as a "Star Gate"...lol.

[jerkface11]

Forget the Delorean, get a Tardis! OR better yet...dig up an Egyptian artifact & use it as a "Star Gate"...lol.

I'm pretty sure the Tardis beats the entire Stargate network.

[Bramblerose]

I'm pretty sure the Tardis beats the entire Stargate network.

But do you get a sonic screwdriver? This being Earth it doesn't work as well- it's not a thumping tool- but damn, a sonic screwdriver! Think it would un-suck the customer??

[RetailWorkhorse]

Think it would un-suck the customer??

I think it would break the screw-driver.

[Wembley]

...ask and ye shall receive...

http://www.delorean.com/

-Wembley

[Broomjockey]

dig up an Egyptian artifact & use it as a "Star Gate"...lol.

I'm pretty sure the Tardis beats the entire Stargate network.

I would like to point out that the Stargate only functions as a time-travel device when the wormhole passes through a solar flare directly in its path, the temporal results of which are nearly impossible to predict without technology well beyond current Earth standards.

[Captain Trips]

I would like to point out that the Stargate only functions as a time-travel device when the wormhole passes through a solar flare directly in its path, the temporal results of which are nearly impossible to predict without technology well beyond current Earth standards.

Besides, have you ever seen a Stargate fly? Nope. But a police box hovering down the freeway, now THAT'S a sight to see!