Dear dimwit on the phone

An anti-dimwit from the land of flakdom:
"Sports."
"Yes, I'm calling from KrustyBurger. We're having a flashmob at the Isotopes game tonight and ..."
"We don't cover the Isotopes"
"OK, thank you."

 

Dear moron who runs a youth sports club:

When you take the time to email me to tell me about a developing story dealing with your club, here's a hint: Tell me the story. When your email says, "Please email me to find out about a developing story with our club," you waste your time, my time and come across like an attention-seeking little kid. You emailed me. You obviously want to tell me something. So spit it out already.

#WhyDoPeopleDoAnnoyingThings?

 

Get your own damned beer, Petrie, and get him one and me one while you're at it.

 

Dear member of booster club at major university up the road: You're calling me to ask if you can send us an email about your camp? No you can't unless you have a note from your mother [/bluefont]

 

Ah, dimwit doubleheader day ...

One of the newsies forwards a note from the manager of a local golf club about a player who qualified for the junior nationals and he can get us an interview. Do you get home delivery, or did you miss that we had that story nine days ago?

 

On the email front...

An endless flow of requests for Little League rosters/schedules/recaps...anything, finally gets answered.

The guy goes on this endless description of a game with useful phrases such as "we drew a heart-stopping walk in the bottom of the sixth inning with parents on both sides standing and cheering." But no names, no real information I can do much with. I email back with another example of a roundup and request he include names, etc in future recaps. He responds by saying he would have done that if he knew it was something for the newspaper.

Uh, duh.

 

Because, you know... I just wanted the info for my own use...

 

Summer camps.

We put together a hell of a page, listing 57 camps in 13 different sports. Laid out the ground rules early: we'll run it for free, but you better get it to us by deadline and include all the pertinent info, including cost and a contact number. Public and coaches loved it. Readers could see all the basketball camps, compare dates, locations and prices, etc. And it saved a major headache of running these things one at a time.

 

I'll save you the trouble ...

Dear misguided and uninformed summer came rep,

When we told you you had to get us your information on time and we would run it for free, we meant on our time, not yours. I'm sorry your Little Jimmy Karate Summer Camp notice didn't get in our section but since you sent it to us three days after we went to press, don't you think that's more your fault than ours?

And, no, we will not run a correction informing our readers we dropped the ball on this one. It's not our fault you don't know/care to operate a calender.

 

Approves.

 

I figured someone would get the reference.

 

I missed that the first time. Well done.