As mentioned in a previous post my Sunday ride the other week was curtailed prematurely as I had to head off to CA on a business trip. Well the whole trip was rendered completely worthwhile by a single incident on Monday morning.
I flew out on Sunday accompanied by three work colleagues. Now, as I have mentioned in passing I am a scientist and as a result my colleagues are also scientists, although I remain a luddite, to the extent that I eschew both suspension and gears in my choice of MTB (Go my Monocog 29er!!!), most of my colleagues are more typical science types, i.e. techno-geeks.
One young guy on the trip ( a evangelical "Mac-guy" and general Apple-freak) has just got his hands on an iPhone. As you can imagine he is in seventh heaven and spent the whole flight (all five hours) watching video downloads on his iPhone. Even I think it is pretty slick. The guy is clearly in love!
Well the next morning the gods of coincidence start playing chess - to momentous and spectacular effect. First up we have agreed to meet at 7 am in the breakfast roomof our hotel. When I arrive I find that my young iPhone colleague is not in the breakfast room yet. However another of my colleagues is and not only that but has met up with a young lady who works for our company and just happens to be in San Francisco, in the same hotel, on the same day as us but for a completely different meeting! What are the odds! Obviously we sit together for breakfast and soon are joined by the our other colleagues (including young iPhone).
As breakfast progresses Mr iPhone can't help himself but mention that he is the proud owner of the most up to date and indispensible peice of techno-candy available. As luck would have it the young female work colleague is actually impressed by this (even female scientists are geeks) and so Mr iPhone produces his prized electronic gizmo to demo it's "indispensible features" to Miss techno-geek. He leans across to show off the internet browser and as he activates the screen Miss Techno-geek flinches back as though someone has just shoved a spider in her face! Mr iPhone likewise goes into rictus and VERY rapidly withdraws the iPhone, fidgets with it urgently and flushes bright red.
"What's the matter?" our boss enquires to which the young lady blurts out "it was porn!" Oh yes Mr iPhone had inadvertantly left open the last web page he had been viewing! Unfortunately that happened to be a porn-site, very classy I'm sure you agree and just the sort of thing you want to share with your work colleagues over breakfast. His "explanation" was that one of his friends had told him it wasn't possible to access porn on the iPhone as t was blocked and so he was doing some "research". Of course you were mate!
I had heard mention of people figuratively "jerking off" over the lastest and greatest "new toys" but I fear my colleague was perhaps being a little too literal in this instance!
Flight to Ca $500, breakfast in hotel $14 - watching a workmate make a complete twat of himself with a porn-ridden iPhone.... bloody priceless! Almost worth the curtailed MTB ride.
Cheers (remember to always delete your history and temporary files)
Dogzbollux
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