BritGalInTheCity

Nutters

Lawyers are nutters. Am on a train back from DC to NY having spent 3 days at a client site working my arse off. They're lawyers. Most of my friends have worked with lawyers and so will believe me when I say they are a bunch of nutters.....I was working primarily for one partner who basically had forgotten where his house was located and what his wife and kids looked like. Why would anyone stay married to this person is beyond me - it must be so boring (or possibly really exciting because its like sleeping with a new man every time you see him its been so long).

More than this though - why would anyone want to work for him. He has 2 women under him(!) and a 3rd joining soon (why? you may ask!). They all think working till midnight is normal behaviour - one of them has a husband and small kids - barking. Sure if you fancy the guy and that is the only way to get your end away (office desk/photocopier/loos etc. Or maybe you're young and staying at work till midnight is a way of passing the time before the nightclub opens but normal-aged (that's me now...), married, parents with mpv's are "choosing" this as a lifestyle (not that they would ever say they are choosing it!). Barking...

posted by NewbieMum @ 7:35 PM 0 comments

Queuing

So queuing (or "waiting on line" as the Americans say) is a bit of a social phenomena, I've realised... You have the British who are quintessentially anal about it, the French who are risque about it and the Americans come somewhere in the middle!

I roll up at the amtrak - after my knackering week with the mental lawyers and just want to get home (or at least begin my 3-hour journey in peace) and I find myself in the middle of a dilemma - do I join the queue which stretches halfway to North Carolina, or hang around near the gate and "push in" (UK term meaning: to join a queue in the middle and not at the end). Being still British enough to remember the sacredness of the queue, I join the end of the queue (note the importance of the "end" - not the middle or beginning - the END - the last position, after everyone else - I can send a diagram if necessary....)

posted by NewbieMum @ 5:06 PM 0 comments