tales from an ordinary world

1999-02-19

They're doing stuff to the power switching in the building with all the big important computers this weekend, which means most things had to be shutdown, etc. This evening, we were putting a temporary box in another building to act as a temporary webserver, so that anyone coming to our websites would get a nice little message saying "many of our services are down this weekend, please come back later..." - a bit more useful than a timed-out connection.

So anyway, while 3 of us were setting things up, I stood in the doorway so as to give my 2 co-workers more room. Just outside, there was a vending machine, a lift and some public phones. A girl was waiting for her friend to finish on the phone, and went to get something from the vending machine. I noticed some letters on her t-shirt which I took to be Hebrew. Suddenly she said "oh my god, I can't believe I did something so stupid !", and giggled and said something or other to her friend. Then she walks up to me and says "uhm, do you want these ?", handing me a packet of cheese & bacon "Cheetos" (I couldn't get her to let me pay for them). She bought something else from the vending machine, and disappeared into the lift with her friend. I guess I was right about her being Jewish :P