Monday 30 June 2008

Racktime Annie

Who says nothing works in Italy? After just one year, I got the magazine rack I wanted in my office alright! Here is a little instruction how you can climb the heights of efficiency also in Mediterranean countries: So, after you order, let's say a magazine rack so you can show visitors all the beautiful Magazines your company produces, of course, nothing will happen for a while. You need to ask again and again until on the exact day when you have all forgotten about it, it will arrive all of a sudden. The trick is to keep asking but still forget it. But it would be too easy and no fun at all if the story ended here. It will most naturally come with broken legs. Since we're in a civilized country there is an excellent customer service that takes the complain and promises to send you new legs for the rack. The process of leg substitution runs just like for the whole order so one day the young guy from the post office will come and hand you two black things because he was told to deliver them to you. You by then probably really have forgotten all about the rack and send him away with his plastic tubes. Big mistake! Because now all parties involved will be convinced rightfully that there is a fully functional rack in your office. What you have to do now is to invite the person responsible for a cuppa in your office and show him the void space where the rack is supposed to be. And then it is a game of luck. In my case, a small miracles happened and several people came, all laden with different parts of the rack and set it up in no time. Easy enough, right?
So, finally, let me present to you all the printed issues of Focus, Focus Junior, Focus Pico, Focus Storia, Braintrainer, Geo, Jack and quirky Top Girl!

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