Anyone seen the Editor recently? He’s looking a bit drawn, if you ask me. Perhaps it’s time for him to step down and allow me to take over. Then we can have some REAL fun! But meanwhile I still have column to run, so onwards and upwards…
The Best Arnold I Have Ever Seen
I had a deja-vu experience recently while bumping into former board member Arnold
Ritter. Arnold is with Com Cab nowadays. He was on the DaC BoM at the time that we
introduced our first (and rather ugly, looking back!) door logos. I remember it well:
Arnold used to tell anyone who would listen that Dial-a-Cab were the best radio
circuit in the world.
Then he left for (the late) Metrocab circuit. He had then found
heaven. I saw him sometime afterwards and he told me with the utmost feeling that Metrocab
were "…the best circuit I have ever been on."
I missed seeing him for some time but when we did meet up again, he was on Mountview.
"A different world" he told me, "Mountview are far and away
the best circuit I have ever been on!"
I didn’t see him for a couple of years after that but when I did, he was
carrying the Datacab logo.
"Hi Al," he called out, "I’ve struck gold at last.
Datacab are without doubt the best circuit I have ever been on!"
In fact, had he been able to find any work, he would have stayed there
but when I bumped into him recently outside Gateways (the best supermarket he had ever
shopped in!) he told me to my absolute astonishment - well to my surprise - ok so I
wasn’t at all surprised but I have to fill the page somehow - that he was now on Com
Cab.
"I should have gone to Com Cab first" he told me, "It’s
easily the best circuit I’ve ever been on!"
"So" I said, "when are you coming back to Dial-a-Cab" I
asked.
"Do you think they’ll have me?" enquired Arnold, "after
all, they were the first best circuit that I had ever been on…"
Arnold tells me that he is thinking of emigrating to Australia soon (the best
country he has ever been to!) and to join up again with his family.
Good luck, sport. There are probably
some of the best circuits you have ever been on over there…
What Gazza Gates Won’t Tell You
Old Gary "Gazza" Gates only tells you what he wants you to hear about the
Call Centre. For the REAL news, look no further!
I hear that ructions have been emanating from the Call Centre since the
January Call Sign when Joe Brazil revealed that the lovely Emma "where’s my
mobile" Chandler wanted to see naked men parading their charms in this mag!
And even worse, some of the lovely ladies of the Brunswick House 4th
floor had expressed an interest in posing with some of their kit off when they heard the
figure of £15 mentioned. Unfortunately, they seemed to have been under the impression
that the magazine paid THEM! According to my information, it is THEY who are expected to
pay the Editor for giving them their first modelling break!
I also hear that one of the Control Room ladies has demanded an apology after
reading Joe Brazil’s Mailshot letter explaining how someone in the Call Centre
didn’t understand a simple question. Apparently, the Editor assumed somewhere that
the person concerned was female but he turned out to be male. I suppose the law of
averages says that it had to be a male eventually. I bet he can’t drive properly
either…
See you soon.
