Silence sometimes is white hot gold

So, that's the type of shit that drives me bonkers.

Bonkers wasn't my first choice of words but when it popped into my head as a synonym how could I not use it.

"That's bonkers!"

"That's crazy bonkers!" - I think I'm going to use that all the time.

So, anyway...

I was there late and this time it wasn't because I was downloading porn but I was actually busy making print ads. I hadn't done a print ad for months and months and when I got a phone call from the publisher of the paper, he seemed actually pleased that I had emailed over the PDF's.

"It's been awhile."

"Yeah. Well, you know I put the date in the file name and the last one was in June."

"Yeah, I was going to say that long ago since Summer."

"You know it may have been even longer because that's when I last wrote the ad, the last time it ran was a few weeks before that, so maybe since May."

I knew why he was calling; the company still owes money. He's a good man so I brought the issue up for him.

"*The Owner* said she was going to call you, I'll betting she hasn't yet."

"Nope, not yet."

"When do you need a check by?"

"To run an ad in this Saturday's paper, I would need a check in my hand by four o'clock today."

"Okay, I'll let her know. How much is it?"

He told me the amount eleven and a half thousand or so, and then I asked him to have someone check the files that I had sent over because I had upgraded to Adobe Acrobat 8 and I was certain it changed some of my presets.

I called the owner after I hung up with him and left her a voice mail with all the particulars. I received no word from her by noon thirty so...

(I just made noon thirty up, I was trying to trick you into thinking that some folks actually say noon thirty)

...I called the office and left a message for her to call me. And when I got no calls from her by one thirty I called again. I finally reached her by two forty five.

"Hey, did you get my message from this morning?"

"I did."

"Yeah, it's just that he said he needs a check today." I paused to give her a chance to say something but she said nothing. "By four."

"How much was does he need?"

"It was eleven thousand five hundred and something something."

"Okay."

"He said he has a courier that he uses and he'll give you the info if you call."

"Okay."

I wanted to say something like "What the holy fuck have you been waiting for?" but it isn't my company so I just said "Alright, bye"