Brian Coltrane
09-28-2004, 03:48 AM
( Another example of county government.....inaction. Not to be confused with "in action" , as we obviously ain't been....)
Brian Coltrane: "Wanna have a meeting? Or should we just fight for the hell of it?"
MaryAColtrane: *snorts* "I dunno. If we do another meeting, the town might get the impression that we're organized and consistent. Which we know we ain't. Heh! Besides we don't have a crisis of the moment to exchange any words of wit over."
Brian Coltrane: "Sure we do. We're behind in the mail."
MaryAColtrane: "We are?"
Brian Coltrane: "Awright, evidently we'd better have a meeting, since you didn't know that." *opens notebook* "We hereby meet to moderate. All in attendance, say "Aye!" *holds up hand*
MaryAColtrane: *raises hand* "Aye."
Brian Coltrane: *counts raised hands* "One...two..." *nods* "All duly present and accounted for!" *jots this into notebook* "Awright. First order o' business....county mail. MaryAnne, have you answered any of the letters from the Hazzard populace in the last 3 or 4 weeks?"
MaryAColtrane: "The only letter I've seen is the one submission to our Big Screamin' Deal contest. I saw you replied to one about the DVDs....? I never saw the original to that one..."
Brian Coltrane: "What about the other 30-odd letters? There's been more. You didn't see these?" *pulls a thick stack of mail from jacket pocket*
MaryAColtrane: "Thirty?!"
Brian Coltrane: "Awright, maybe it's more like thirty-five."
MaryAColtrane: "Thirty-five?!"
Brian Coltrane: *winces* "Um....well...I don't have an exact count. Could be more than that."
MaryAColtrane: "Wait a minute, wait a minute... time out." *holds hands up to form a T* "Seriously....has there been a lot of mail coming in? Because if there has, I've haven't seen any of them which means there not making it to my inbox. Either Flash is eatin' 'em or Bandit went and buried 'em."
MaryAColtrane: (Translated: My *%(!$ AOL isn't letting the emails through. LOL)
Brian Coltrane: "Oh. Well, I thought you seen these, so I filed 'em under....miscellaneous."
Brian Coltrane: "You didn't answer any?"
MaryAColtrane: "No, I didn't! How can I answer any mail that I never saw in the first place?"
Brian Coltrane: "That's a good question. This explains the rotten service we're givin' our community." *flips through mail* "Who's job is it to answer the mail, anyhow?"
MaryAColtrane: "It's divided between the three of us. You, myself and the Commander. Whoever answers a piece of mail is supposed to copy the other two on to avoid any duplicity."
Brian Coltrane: "What if none of us answer it?"
MaryAColtrane: "Well then we have a problem."
Brian Coltrane: "Let's just say, for the sake of example, that we have this problem." *pauses* "Who's fault is it?"
MaryAColtrane: "All three of us. Assuming all three of us received the same pieces of mail."
Brian Coltrane: *hands over an envelope* "Did you see this one? Came in the other day." *shows letter*
Brian Coltrane: hi, i think i remember that \"hazzard county\" was in atlanta? i will be in atlanta next week and wonder if you know of anything out there that is worth seeing regarding the dukes of hazzard?
thanks, varun
MaryAColtrane: *shakes head* "No, I didn't see that one. The last piece of mail I received from in regards to HNet was at the end of August. I haven't seen any mail since then."
Brian Coltrane: "Ut-oh." *gives a low whistle* "What we have heah, is a failure to communicate."
MaryAColtrane: *sighs* "Terrific...and all this time I just figured nobody was writing to us."
Brian Coltrane: "They're writing. I didn't know you weren't seein' the mail. I've been seein' it, but with the technical issues of late, ain't been able to work through it. " *sorts through mail* "The good news, is I have copies of it all."
MaryAColtrane: "That's good. I don't suppose you can run off some copies for me? And let's figure out which ones are the longest outstanding and should probably be answered first, if they haven't been all ready."
Brian Coltrane: "I'll make you copies. What's the last date of the one ya got, 'zactly?"
MaryAColtrane: "August 31st."
Brian Coltrane: "Wow. Awright....." *stacks mail up* "MaryAnne, if you saw my answer on that one about the DVD's, but you didn't get the orignal...why didn't ya say somethin'? I'd of known somethin' was wrong a lot sooner."
MaryAColtrane: *sighs and puts hands in the air* "Cousin, I've had so much stuff going on I'm lucky I know what day it is sometimes. I figured the mail was answered so I wasn't going to worry too much about having not seen the original. Seeing some originals and not others wasn't unusual up to this point, given the dogs' penchant for eating the mail sometimes. But obviously now we've reached unusual, because apparently there's been mail and I haven't seen one shred of any of it." *pauses* "Damn dogs."
Brian Coltrane: *chuckles* "At least you have dogs to blame. Me, I really ain't got an excuse."
MaryAColtrane: "Well, that's true, tho' you could say the typewriter has a few letters that don't strike, and I suppose every black pen you picked up was out of ink." *grins*
Brian Coltrane: "Truth is, with the techincal problems I had, I couldn't get the damn envelopes open half the time. But I knew the stuff was stackin' up, and I didn't say anythin'. I'm sorry." *lowers shoulders* "I'm gonna get fired for real one of these days."
MaryAColtrane: "At this rate, you 'n I both are gonna git canned. But let's see if we can get back with the program and get back on track. I'll have a little heart to heart with the dogs and leave some pepper in my inbox to keep them out. Meantime, run me off some copies of those letters if you can and I'll work on replyin' to the folks. With apologies."
Brian Coltrane: "I'll help, o' course. And some of it might be junk mail, so this may not be as bad as it looks. But just in case....what are the unemployement benefits like in this county?"
MaryAColtrane: "I think it's a cardboard box and a slice of stale bread."
Brian Coltrane: "Oh hell." *swallows* "I think we'd better get crackin' on this. Think we can keep this between us? I mean, the Commander doesn't need to know....right?"
MaryAColtrane: "Depends. You plan on posting the transcript of this meeting up on the community board?"
Brian Coltrane: "Yeah, but she won't notice this new one for at least a week. We outta be caught up by then."
MaryAColtrane: *rolls eyes* "Oh that's just brilliant, Brian. And maybe the Commander will be nice and let you and I pick what cardboard box we want."
Brian Coltrane: *expression brightens* "Ya think so?"
MaryAnneColtrane: *shakes head* "No. I don't. Let's adjourn eh? I gotta patrol I gotta git too..."
Brian Coltrane: "Awright. Meetin' ajourned, dis-missed, all in favor...amen!" *salutes*
MaryAColtrane: *smiles and salutes* "Amen!"
Brian Coltrane: "Wanna have a meeting? Or should we just fight for the hell of it?"
MaryAColtrane: *snorts* "I dunno. If we do another meeting, the town might get the impression that we're organized and consistent. Which we know we ain't. Heh! Besides we don't have a crisis of the moment to exchange any words of wit over."
Brian Coltrane: "Sure we do. We're behind in the mail."
MaryAColtrane: "We are?"
Brian Coltrane: "Awright, evidently we'd better have a meeting, since you didn't know that." *opens notebook* "We hereby meet to moderate. All in attendance, say "Aye!" *holds up hand*
MaryAColtrane: *raises hand* "Aye."
Brian Coltrane: *counts raised hands* "One...two..." *nods* "All duly present and accounted for!" *jots this into notebook* "Awright. First order o' business....county mail. MaryAnne, have you answered any of the letters from the Hazzard populace in the last 3 or 4 weeks?"
MaryAColtrane: "The only letter I've seen is the one submission to our Big Screamin' Deal contest. I saw you replied to one about the DVDs....? I never saw the original to that one..."
Brian Coltrane: "What about the other 30-odd letters? There's been more. You didn't see these?" *pulls a thick stack of mail from jacket pocket*
MaryAColtrane: "Thirty?!"
Brian Coltrane: "Awright, maybe it's more like thirty-five."
MaryAColtrane: "Thirty-five?!"
Brian Coltrane: *winces* "Um....well...I don't have an exact count. Could be more than that."
MaryAColtrane: "Wait a minute, wait a minute... time out." *holds hands up to form a T* "Seriously....has there been a lot of mail coming in? Because if there has, I've haven't seen any of them which means there not making it to my inbox. Either Flash is eatin' 'em or Bandit went and buried 'em."
MaryAColtrane: (Translated: My *%(!$ AOL isn't letting the emails through. LOL)
Brian Coltrane: "Oh. Well, I thought you seen these, so I filed 'em under....miscellaneous."
Brian Coltrane: "You didn't answer any?"
MaryAColtrane: "No, I didn't! How can I answer any mail that I never saw in the first place?"
Brian Coltrane: "That's a good question. This explains the rotten service we're givin' our community." *flips through mail* "Who's job is it to answer the mail, anyhow?"
MaryAColtrane: "It's divided between the three of us. You, myself and the Commander. Whoever answers a piece of mail is supposed to copy the other two on to avoid any duplicity."
Brian Coltrane: "What if none of us answer it?"
MaryAColtrane: "Well then we have a problem."
Brian Coltrane: "Let's just say, for the sake of example, that we have this problem." *pauses* "Who's fault is it?"
MaryAColtrane: "All three of us. Assuming all three of us received the same pieces of mail."
Brian Coltrane: *hands over an envelope* "Did you see this one? Came in the other day." *shows letter*
Brian Coltrane: hi, i think i remember that \"hazzard county\" was in atlanta? i will be in atlanta next week and wonder if you know of anything out there that is worth seeing regarding the dukes of hazzard?
thanks, varun
MaryAColtrane: *shakes head* "No, I didn't see that one. The last piece of mail I received from in regards to HNet was at the end of August. I haven't seen any mail since then."
Brian Coltrane: "Ut-oh." *gives a low whistle* "What we have heah, is a failure to communicate."
MaryAColtrane: *sighs* "Terrific...and all this time I just figured nobody was writing to us."
Brian Coltrane: "They're writing. I didn't know you weren't seein' the mail. I've been seein' it, but with the technical issues of late, ain't been able to work through it. " *sorts through mail* "The good news, is I have copies of it all."
MaryAColtrane: "That's good. I don't suppose you can run off some copies for me? And let's figure out which ones are the longest outstanding and should probably be answered first, if they haven't been all ready."
Brian Coltrane: "I'll make you copies. What's the last date of the one ya got, 'zactly?"
MaryAColtrane: "August 31st."
Brian Coltrane: "Wow. Awright....." *stacks mail up* "MaryAnne, if you saw my answer on that one about the DVD's, but you didn't get the orignal...why didn't ya say somethin'? I'd of known somethin' was wrong a lot sooner."
MaryAColtrane: *sighs and puts hands in the air* "Cousin, I've had so much stuff going on I'm lucky I know what day it is sometimes. I figured the mail was answered so I wasn't going to worry too much about having not seen the original. Seeing some originals and not others wasn't unusual up to this point, given the dogs' penchant for eating the mail sometimes. But obviously now we've reached unusual, because apparently there's been mail and I haven't seen one shred of any of it." *pauses* "Damn dogs."
Brian Coltrane: *chuckles* "At least you have dogs to blame. Me, I really ain't got an excuse."
MaryAColtrane: "Well, that's true, tho' you could say the typewriter has a few letters that don't strike, and I suppose every black pen you picked up was out of ink." *grins*
Brian Coltrane: "Truth is, with the techincal problems I had, I couldn't get the damn envelopes open half the time. But I knew the stuff was stackin' up, and I didn't say anythin'. I'm sorry." *lowers shoulders* "I'm gonna get fired for real one of these days."
MaryAColtrane: "At this rate, you 'n I both are gonna git canned. But let's see if we can get back with the program and get back on track. I'll have a little heart to heart with the dogs and leave some pepper in my inbox to keep them out. Meantime, run me off some copies of those letters if you can and I'll work on replyin' to the folks. With apologies."
Brian Coltrane: "I'll help, o' course. And some of it might be junk mail, so this may not be as bad as it looks. But just in case....what are the unemployement benefits like in this county?"
MaryAColtrane: "I think it's a cardboard box and a slice of stale bread."
Brian Coltrane: "Oh hell." *swallows* "I think we'd better get crackin' on this. Think we can keep this between us? I mean, the Commander doesn't need to know....right?"
MaryAColtrane: "Depends. You plan on posting the transcript of this meeting up on the community board?"
Brian Coltrane: "Yeah, but she won't notice this new one for at least a week. We outta be caught up by then."
MaryAColtrane: *rolls eyes* "Oh that's just brilliant, Brian. And maybe the Commander will be nice and let you and I pick what cardboard box we want."
Brian Coltrane: *expression brightens* "Ya think so?"
MaryAnneColtrane: *shakes head* "No. I don't. Let's adjourn eh? I gotta patrol I gotta git too..."
Brian Coltrane: "Awright. Meetin' ajourned, dis-missed, all in favor...amen!" *salutes*
MaryAColtrane: *smiles and salutes* "Amen!"