Re: Weird Technical Writing Tasks

["Steve Schwarzman" <steve_schwarzman -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

The weirdest thing I ever had to do? Go shopping for sheets (yes, the kind 
you sleep on).

We had a customer coming in for training, and the classrooms weren't 
available. So I booked a conference room. A VP in charge of nothing in 
particular heard that I was going to put PCs on the soft-wood table he had 
picked out so lovingly, and wanted me to cancel the course. I won, since it 
was for a customer. But he insisted I get a table covering. It was the day 
before the class, and there was no way I could get a custom-fit table pad in 
time. So I went shopping for the thickest tablecloth I could find. All the 
cloths were floral, etc. - not appropriate for an office setting. So I got 
sheets instead.

I bet it was the only time the company has purchased sheets. Well, I hope 
so, anyway.