Arf wrote:
Steve, it's not that they wouldn't want to meet you, personally, it's more that they don't want to have to hack through the jungle where you live, beset on all sides by prehistoric bikers in loincloths and red-headed Amazons in short shorts.
You forgot the Plumbers, Maintenance, Painters, Drywall ...
I actually have fun with all this.
Setting : College.
Problem: Safe door failed in open condition.
They opened the safe and heard this "clink" and the S&G dealie bwoke...
I was in the Rec Room playing pinball, and listening to a live band at the time, shooting the bull with folks.
I was summoned...
"Call the lock and safe folks, don't bug me, I'm busy". - I said.
"No, we don't know how to get this door out without folks realizing the door is busted".
I knew the Professional Lock/Safe/Alarm folks.
They wanted to remove door, take it back to the shop, fix it, and bring it back.
Now this was a real safe, a big sucker with two doors.
College kids can't see past the stud-puppy or hot chick in mini-skirt.
Asked some EMT folks to roll up, with lights and sirens...everyone was at that side of the building wanting to know what had happened while the safe folks eased out and stuck this door onto a big wrecker.
This door would cause a van to get low on the springs and the front be pointed upward.
Faculty went for hours not realizing the door was off this safe, the back of the safe is what folks saw, and unless you walked around, you could not tell.
College students wanting to know what happened.
Mr. "Pillows" was having chest pains...
So the next day was the start of 3 days of Awareness.
Gideons are going to arrive and pass out little Bibles.
Insurance Company is going to have a car all totaled from drunk driving.
Safe Sex folks...
Free Cokes, pizza and fruit...college kids only do one thing better and that is "free booze".
Safe folks show back up, nobody paid any attention. I mean armed security baby sat that dept overnight.
Safe folks finished and I am going to show them where the free food is.
They are cracking up...
Nobody paid any attention to me carrying a fish bowl full of condoms across that part of the campus.
It was a good 15 minutes after I set this bowl onto a table, that it dawned on folks, what was in the fish bowl.
This was before I ever attended college myself.
I have fun with this stuff, Soc and CJ depts used to have me do stuff all the time.
I ran in and "stole" the CJ's breifcase...more than once.
I did this in other Depts too...
Now I am a 6' white male with a mustache.
I have been described as anything from a short fat gal with red hair to a "heavy chested" black lady, to you name it.
My other dealie in some classes was to "peg" folks.
Just to drive in the point many folks advertise too much.
Soc upper level with 80 students:
Brenda's parents have a gun safe, the combo starts with 81 and you deduct 12. (81-69-57-45.)
Joe's dad's Lincloln you push 1-9-1-1 to open the door.
Lisa's home alarm code is "In-In" (4-6-4-6)
Mark's gun safe is electronic and his code is "Mark" (6-2-7-5)
Like I keep saying...
folks advertise too much
Don't look like prey - think like a criminal.