This made me laugh so hard I fell off my chair a little bit

This is how I feel after one of my more taxing phone conversations:

Fortunately, it is not how I look. Except for that one time.

Jonny's driving school...

You know I like to entertain you all with stories of the people we get calling here. I've just had another brilliant one.

ring ring
"Good morning, Big Red L, Amanda speaking..."
"Yeah, are you a driving school?"
"Yes."
"Ok, I need a number off you. I've got a mate and I've lost his number. He's an instructor."
"Ok. Who is your friend?"
"Jonny."
Ah. Another one for the Red Driving School, perhaps? I break the bad news.
"We don't have a Jonny, I'm afraid."
"He works for Jonny's Driving School."
"Ok... we're The Big Red L Company."
"Yeah, the driving school. Can you find his number please?"
"No, I don't have it."
"Well, I've looked on the internet, and I can't find it."
I am completely at a loss.
"Where are you?"
I don't know why I ask, because wherever he is, I can't help.
"I'm on the internet! Don't you have it on your database?"
"Erm. Ok. No, I'm sorry, I can't find Jonny's number for you."
He is clearly annoyed with my inability to conjure up numbers for people who just happen to be in a similar business to me. The phone goes dead.

The worrying thing is, it's not even the first time something like that has happened.

Celebrate good times c'mon, du du du

Jason Hardy (maybe after Jason Hall's comment about bringing doughnuts) has completely upped his game and a day or two ago bought in

a

tin

of

chocolate

CELEBRATIONS

It was an amazing day. Not only are these things gems of chocolately goodness, they make awesome missiles. And no one can get cross with you for throwing them, because you're just being nice and sharing chocolate.

BRILLIANT.

In other, less chocolately news, we've worked out a way to send our 5 - 20 hour survey by email, which is pretty cool. It's already got more of a response then the post campaign usually does (people are just too lazy to find a pen, find an envelope, put the survey in the envelope, walk to the post box - I know this, for I am also a lazy person and I probably wouldn't either). So I'm pleased with that, and now want to email everyone with surveys.

If you've had between 5 - 20 hours lessons with us and would like to fill in the survey, please do: http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e271wevjf8zyg8xn/a006f91cjlpt/questions

Biscuits

Not much out of the ordinary has been going on in The Big Red L Office of late. Alana is settled in now and knows more about driving lessons than Tony and I put together (small fib) and everything is trotting along nicely. Tony is out more than before as he's slowly getting back into doing lessons now that the office doesn't collapse when he leaves for a bit.

This is not good news for the blog.

So I asked Alana what she thought I could blog about today, seeing as I've not posted for a while. She tipped her head on one side and thought about it for a second or two, before announcing,
"Biscuits."
For a second I thought she had some bizarre version of Tourette's, until she clarified for me.
"Jason bought you some biscuits the other day."
He did, that's true, and they were very lovely (although Tony ate most of them). We were very grateful, and Jason rose swiftly up in favouritism ranks. However, I'm still not quite sure what Alana's getting at.
"Well, if you blog about it, maybe it will encourage more people to bring in biscuits."
That's what I like about Alana. She's ever the optimist.

(Thanks again Jason, they were very tasty :D)