A member of our quality team was on a visit from the Chennai main office. He was talking to a large group of my colleagues on our company's quality model. Now it was a post-lunch session and we were all carrying a heavy burden (read lunch). To this, reader, add a slightly dark hall(he wanted to show a PPT), an air-conditoned room and slightly comfortable chairs. What would you do if you were a member of the audience? I daresay you would have felt the call of Morpheus as well. I mean, you would surely feel sleepy. That was indeed the case with my colleagues. They were just about to enter Dreamz Unlimited.
Now the speaker was very observant. He was quick to notice that he was in the midst of Sleepy Hallow. So he tried to retain their attention. He asked aloud "Are you feeling sleepy?". His tone was not angry, but it was genuinely sincere. "Ye(yawn)s Sir!" came the mumbled replies as soon as they could. Do you know what our man said next? I am sure that he didn't realise what his words also meant. 'Coz he was a sweet and innocent guy otherwise. Take a load of this:
"So you are sleepy. Do you want me to sleep with you?"
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Needless to say, nobody took him up on his offer. But for a second or so quite a few fairer faces in the audience were taken aback! Thank God nothing happened, or else someone would have filmed Caligula Part N.
Some people sure have a way with words. What say???
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