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Title: Training related misfortunes
Post by: Nick on March 22, 2010, 12:06:10 PM
I had a conference call earlier and my mate and I were first there waiting for the wimmin  ::)

We fell to discussing some of our past misadventures and he reminded me of one I had forgotten about/buried.  redface:

Aside from the "is this your ear-ring" disaster of 1994, and my altercation with Virginia Bottomley's mother, we reminisced about the aquarium disaster  redface:

We were running a training session in a hotel for about 25 people. We needed to show them a video, but there was, incredibly, only one double powerpoint in the room. This was fully occupied by the plugs required for the heater and aerator in an aquarium.  rubschin:  We decided to risk unplugging it for a bit, but halfway through the vid the delegates drew our attention to the anguished fish flapping, floating and gasping  eeek: scared2:

We stopped the vid. Reconnected the life support systems and gave them a tea break. WHen the fish seemed to have settled down we unplugged them again and carried on, but we had lost the audience  noooo:.  noooo:They were all staring fixedly at the aquarium.

We threw several dead fish away discreetly during the lunch break  redface:
Title: Re: Training related misfortunes
Post by: Miss Demeanour on March 22, 2010, 01:35:26 PM
Why didn't you just ask the hotel staff for an adaptor ? rubschin:
Title: Re: Training related misfortunes
Post by: Nick on March 22, 2010, 01:36:38 PM
We didn't think redface:
Title: Re: Training related misfortunes
Post by: beerhead on March 23, 2010, 08:30:55 PM
"We didn't think"- no change there then.
Title: Re: Training related misfortunes
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 23, 2010, 09:43:08 PM
I'm a calamity, get me out of here...  whistle:
Title: Re: Training related misfortunes
Post by: Pirate on March 23, 2010, 09:46:25 PM
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