Too late for the Sords

From: DOUG PEKSA - COMPG <PeksaDO_at_Cardiff.ac.uk>
Date: Wed Nov 29 11:34:30 2000

A similar tragedy (although on a much smaller scale) last week.

Arrive at coffee at 11:15 to be told that an IBM PS/2 P70 (386
plasma luggable) has been placed/thrown on the skip. This is
in direct contravention of my standing orders that I should be told
before anything is thrown away - but no one listens....

Anyway, deciding that no more damage will come to the item while I
finish my coffee, I finish my coffee. Twenty minutes later and I'm
standing next to the skip or more correctly I would be
standing next to the skip if the skip was there - it's gone.

I am overcome with guilt - if only I'd gone immediately, if only
I'd broken a few legs earlier to impress upon people that I collect
junk^H^H^H^H antiques.

However I later discover that the skip had been removed a minute or
two before 11:00, so even if I'd gone immediately on being told
I would have been too late.

I am now resolved to go immediately and at high speed when
information is
received. The baseball bat is now within easy reach on the bookshelf.

Doug.
Received on Wed Nov 29 2000 - 11:34:30 GMT