mind your language

Does anyone know what these people are talking about?

Thursday, November 24, 2005

the man who sells the sandwiches

Just arrived back from a train trip to the Midlands to see a client.

It was a relatively painless journey until bloke running the buffet car introduced himself over the Tannoy as the "retail services manager".

He's probably been told to "deliver" retail services to the passengers.

I was confronted with the cursed word "delivery" at one other point during the day. It seems that nowadays everyone delivers something. In fact they don't have do deliver something concrete, they can just deliver an idea - sorry a "concept".

In my life the only people that deliver are my postman and my milkman.

Keep it simple.

Will

1 Comments:

  • At 5:32 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Quite a lot of people "deliver" in my world. Clearly they are using "delivery" exactly as they intended...the bringing of a product or service to the customer, rather than requiring the customer to come to it. So a walking man selling sandwiches to you while you are seated, is exactly delivery. Unless you were on a conveyor moving past him...

     

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