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I told the interviewer that I wasn't very good at my job.

I didn't get an offer, do you believe it?

Did I email Jim, the designer? Nope. I emailed Jim, the 2nd in command for the entire client's organization. That Jim decided to call an all-hands meeting to resolve the matter. About 5 minutes into the meeting, it became apparent that the issue was very minor, and he asked why he was brought into something so small.

Things got better from there and by the end of the project I was on good terms with both Jims.

I now spend a focused moment staring at the To: field before sending any email.

During an all-hands company meeting which was meant to help "boost morale" and sort of rally the troops.

At one point, I said - so that everyone could hear - "It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care."

See, the room felt tense. I was trying to make folks laugh.

Apparently the CEO hadn't seen the movie?

I was young and dumb. I was also "laid off" the next week.

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Sometimes I rhyme slow sometimes I rhyme quick.

My first assignment as a summer intern was to preview the Marshall County Blueberry Parade.

The organizer mentioned that a man named Chuck Yeager would be the grand marshal. Without clarifying, I wrote "Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier, will be grand marshal of this year's Blueberry Festival Parade."

The next day, a very amused Blueberry Festival organizer called to let me know that their grand marshal was not, in fact, the famous Chuck Yeager. My editor was not as amused.

Busiest flying day of the year. Try to check in at the kiosk. Record isn’t coming up. Wait in mile long line to get to the counter. “Your goddam machines are broken,” I say. “I better not miss my goddam flight.” Give her my flight number.

“Sir, this is Midway. Your flight is out of O’Hare.”

A real Edie McClurg moment.

I went to two (2) separate interviews for jobs after graduation that took place on campus at ND on two (2) separate days and at both (2!) interviews my fly was down.

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The 2007 ND-UCLA game was a once in a lifetime experience, I hope

with the wrong defendant. In my defense, the dude had the EXACT same name as another guy who was active in the system(and it wasn't a common name at all) and looked similar. They were not related. The judge thought the guy was someone else entirely as well. The whole thing eventually devolved into a "Who's on First" bit that lasted WAAAY too long.