delsdad wrote:We call that Hockey Season !
Years ago I worked for Northern Telecom in California. Our sister division was in Belleville, Ontario. My first trip up there was in the dead of winter. One of the things I saw was every neighborhood has at least one dad built ice rink in an empty lot for the kids to skate on.
Fast forward a lotta years and I'm running a corporate demo center. I don't know how he got in but we had Jeff Friesen of the hockey playing San Jose Sharks come in for a briefing. Apparently, he had invested a good chunk of money in us and wanted to see what we did.
A few months later Jeff came back with the whole Sharks team for another briefing. They had all bought our stock. It was very apparent that none of them had any technical background so I was trying to come up with analogies to explain what our products did.
I can't remember why I used it but I said, "It's like when you were kids and your dads would make a hockey rink down the block on an empty lot." That really woke them up.
They asked how I knew that and I told them about Northern and seeing them in Belleville. One of the guys grew up in Belleville so now we're all long lost friends.
They said they were all going out to dinner after we finished up and insisted I go along. Those guys lived up the the beer drinking standards set by the McKenzie brothers in
Strange Brew.
