Today one of the Directors in my department asked me to send out a mailing for him. When I asked him for the mailing list, he called someone else on the speakerphone. The guy would list the company names like this: "Ropes Ampersand Gray." There were 5 companies needing an ampersand. He writes down all of the names and hangs up and turns to me, "what the hell is an ampersand?" I draw one in the air. Blank stare. He draws an "@." I say "no" and draw an ampersand on his paper. Blank stare. He says, "Oh, do you mean..." and draws a backwards 3 with a dot above and below. I say "sure." This man probably has gold clubs that cost what I make in a year.

I would have written this in haiku form, but it has too many syllables.