5. - Just a minute, let me check. -NICOOOLE, ... WHAT’S MY E-MAIL ADDRESS?
6. - No, no, that’s my home e-mail address! - Listen, I can’t find it. Let me check and call you back.
7. - Oh!... You’re going for lunch... OK, I’ll send you the address by fax. You’ll have it when you get back. OK?
8. OK. So give me your fax number. - What! You don’t know it?
9. - OK, here’s what we’ll do. You e-mail me your fax number and I’ll fax you my e-mail address. - No, that won’t work. Wait, I’m getting mixed up... Let me think...
11. - What’s your cell-phone number? - Oh, your battery is dead ... Mine too...
12. - OK, listen, here’s what we’ll do... - You charge your cell-phone battery, I’ll call you in a couple of hours and leave you my e-mail address in your voice mail.
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14. - That’s plan A. Now for plan B! I send myself an e-mail to see what my e-mail address is and then I record a message for you in my voice mail....
15. … when you get it, you send me the answer on my pager... … so then, I send you a fax with my e-mail address.
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18. - But actually, I have a small question... … what was I supposed to send you by e-mail? My e-mail address, my fax number, my cell number, pager, telephone?
19. - Oh! You don’t remember either. - It would probably be a good idea to have periodic bilateral coordination meetings concerning protocols for internal communications.
20. - But anyway, since your office is at the other end of the corridor, I’ll come by to pick it up in 2 minutes... OK? Bye!
21. And the moral…: Thanks to technology, we can now waste time with an efficiency until now unimaginable, all in the name of saving time…
