How Busy are You?

I generally return communications from my colleagues. Generally. It seems in one case George Fizpatrick had been trying to get my attention. Somehow I ignored his couple of letters and his telephone message.  It was not intentional of course. It’s just that I must have gotten distracted by other matters, perhaps the economy, terrorism or the recent increase in the price of Tim Hortons Timbits.

These things do happen.  I do like George Fitzpatrick.  So what did George do? He did not send me a nasty letter threatening to bring a motion within 24 hours or asking me what grade I scored in my law school exam in civility.  He sent me a one line fax reading: “You can’t be that busy!”.  That got my attention. I called him right back.  All was well.  George and I went on to settle the case shortly thereafter. 

Unfortunately, humour could not solve the problem with the price of Timbits.