Rudy wrote:
Another flashback (what is it with me and flashbacks lately?!). When I became a mod for Scarface on the Sierra/Vivendi forums, they shipped the game to me before release, so I could try it out (back then they actually still gave the mods the games they moderated for free, imagine that...). I was at work and got this phone call from a Fedex dude.
Fedex dude: "Hello mr. Marchant, I have a delivery, but it doesn't fit in your mailbox. Mind if I put it at your front door?" (in an apartment block that is)
Me: "Nooooo!!! Anybody who sees it might just take it away, man."
Fedex dude: "Hmmm... err... ok... how about in the closet next to your door?" (a closet with the gas meters for all apartments, something NOBODY would look into)
Me: "No way man. There's no lock on that closet! Somebody just might look in it, see the box and take it!"
Fedex dude: "Eh... ok... where do you want me to put it then?"
Me: "Well... my car is in the garage in the basement. A black Fiat, just when you exit the basement door. It's unlocked (yeah...), so could you put it in there?"
Fedex dude: "Eh... ok.."
(signal drops away)
(phonecall back)
Fedex dude: "The signal dropped when I entered the basement, but I put it in the black Fiat. That ok?"
Me: "Awesome!"
(click)
Sure enough, he actually put it in my car in the basement garage.
Really happened. I still feel sorry for that guy...
PS: next story: Ken Williams and my Mystery House folder
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I can one up this.
A few years ago, SHP was hosted on this very cool website called
Tawmis.com... One day the site, Collector, thought had grown to a point that it needed it's own domain.
So Collector got
SierraHelp.com.
Then a few days later, I get an email to confirm my account on SHP.
I was like, "Wot's this? I didn't sign up for SHP?"
So I contact Collector, "Wots this about me having an account on SHP?"
"You have one," Collector had replied.
"But I didn't sign up for one," I commented back.
"You're right," he said matter-of-factly.
"Then how the blazes did I get this email that says I have an account on SHP?" I asked.
"Oh, that? That's because I signed you up," Collector had laughed.
"You did what now?" I asked, disbelieving his words.
"I signed you up," Collector repeated. "Look, just because you retell the story like you have some British accent, doesn't change the fact you speak perfect American English."
"Right, I get it now," I said, "but then why did you sign me up?"
"Because I need you to get the forum started," Collector explained, as if I should have already known.
"Wot if I don't want to do it?" I asked.
"You have no choice in the matter, really," Collector explained.
"I don't, do I?" I asked.
"No," Collector replied. "Oh, and another thing - you're not just a user."
"Wot? You've gone and made me a moderator too, then?" I asked.
"No," Collector scoffed.
"Then what?"
"I've made you an Admin too," Collector said with a bit of glee in his voice.
"Wot? That's madness!"
"Yes, it is. Now get to work. I am the Grand Poobah and you are my piratey minion!" Collector boomed.
... and the rest, they say, is history!
(There are plenty portions of this epic tale that are 101% false! Some of it is true!)