Don’t Shoot the Messager
Rachel Lovinger March 9, 2009
When you absolutely, positively must shoot the messager, reach for one of these. (via)
I recently went to Sundance, where I spent a good number of hours on waitlist lines, trying to get tickets to screenings. If you happen to be standing next to friendly people, you can have some pretty interesting conversations while passing the time together. On one occasion, I found myself waiting next to TV actor David Blue and several of his friends (yep, sometimes even famous people have to wait on lines). Their group was lively, funny, and friendly, even though we had all gotten there at 7:30am.
I popped in and out of conversations with them, on a variety of topics, and as we neared the end of our wait David said to me, “Since you’ve been so helpful, maybe you can help us figure out something else.” Then he said, “You know how you get a message? But the person who brings it to you is a messenger? Where did the N come from?”
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