Feb. 5th, 2008

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As a dynamic entrepreneur, I go to a lot of trade shows to hang round in artifically-lit and unventilated halls trying to maintain a cheery and upbeat demeanour for days at a time.
A couple of months ago, I found myself setting up stand in an overheated, windowless room in Birmingham when a thought struck me - checking my suit bag, I realised I'd brought my double-cuff shirts but left my cufflinks at home. Drat, I said. And double drat.
Looking round the hall, I found a couple of short pieces of twisted metal cable which, bent in two, would have to do as impromptu cufflinks. As it's an engineering trade show, I reasoned, chances are nobody is going to notice.
Pressing flesh and kissing babies on the stand the next day I got chatting to a couple of extremely glamourous execs from a PR agency and after a while, one of them looked at me with an expression which said she thought somewhat less of me than a moment before. "Are you just using bits of wire as cufflinks?" she said in an icy, contemptuous tone.
I adopted an expression of surprise and wounded pride. "Darling! They're Marc Jacobs."

It's amazing how easily impressed people are by a name.

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