I'm 38 away from 4,000, sick of dispenser interviews. Ask me anything.

[eyesroll]

God, the things that people who sell soap dispensers for a living find exciting...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. How would you like to be sacrificed to Dionysius?

[eyesroll]

8. Um. Sure.

So long as he doesn't wax on about how exciting the new touchless line will be for the industry (it comes in blue, you know)...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

10. He won't. He's the God of wine, sex and general debauchery.

He doesn't do industry.

[eyesroll]

21. Obviously, you've never been to one of our conventions.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

24. As long as there's no closet coprophiliacs.

That would be uncomfortable.

[eyesroll]

25. But, on the bright side...

It would all get cleaned up nicely.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

26. Perfect!

[Magrittes Pipe]

27. No. The coprophiles in that industry are FAR from closeted.

[eyesroll]

31. At least it's just the run-of-the-mill "foxy librarian" fetishists

who hit on me...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

32. Stamp my books! Ooh! Shush me! Go on, shush me, baby!

Ooooohh!

[eyesroll]

33. Elliott! Baby! It's been years!

How ya doing?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

34. Oh no! A pop cultural reference that has gone over my head!

The shame. The shame.

[eyesroll]

35. Actually...no...it's a real-life reference

to the very first guy who hit on me at a convention. (He told me his wife and kid were upstairs sleeping in the hotel, so they wouldn't even know...)

He's become a poster boy for everything that is wrong with (only a small number of, I should add) men at these conventions.

[Magrittes Pipe]

36. What about Mike, boss?

:evilgrin:

[eyesroll]

37. Mike likes to be dominated.

Doesn't quite fit.

He probably is a closet corpophile, though.

[Magrittes Pipe]

38. Corpophile?

What does that mean, he is sexually dependent upon the Marines? :shrug:

[eyesroll]

39. Bah.

That could explain why he calls me "sir."

[Pale Blue Dot]

2. How's the gunmetal jacket doing?

:evilgrin:

[eyesroll]

9. Quite nicely.

There will be plenty of use, once it gets colder out.

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. Do you like to eat donut peaches?

[eyesroll]

12. Certainly!

They're only in season for a few weeks, but when they are, I go gangbusters.

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. Do you like it when the juice runs down your chin?

[eyesroll]

23. Not in public.

There are certain private pleasures in life.

[apnu]

4. Do 'ya think Boo is sexy?

[eyesroll]

11. Boo looks pissed.

I can't really call a cat sexy.

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. Boo is a sex machine!

Get up! (get on up) :silly:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. That is one fat cat.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. What is your opinion of busty Nazi nurses?

[eyesroll]

15. I'm a Nice Jewish Girl from a Nice Jewish Family.

That said, Nazi Rock, Nazi Rock, Nazi Nazi Rock Nazi...(I probably got that wrong.)

[mrboba1]

6. what do you do for a living???

You have to interview soap dispenser sellers???

:wtf:

[eyesroll]

16. I edit a trade publication for the cleaning industry.

It gets worse -- I once had to interview a seller of a product that had one purpose.

It removed poop.

It was intended for nursing homes, day cares and vet clinics.

I'd never heard someone be so excited about poop removal before.

[Magrittes Pipe]

18. I imagine someone who had just been covered in poop...

...would be VERY excited about poop removal.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Unless it happened at Club Thundersex.

[Magrittes Pipe]

20. Well, if someone WANTED to be covered in poop, the removal thereof...

...would not be as high a priority.

[eyesroll]

29. The poop-removal vendor also sold an ointment

(again, for the nursing-home crowd) that was intended to relieve chafing and rashes of the perineum (due to incontinence).

In other words, I got a product release for taint cream.

[mrboba1]

28. I can only imagine the conversation!

oy.
:eyes:

[eyesroll]

30. Indeed.

Every few days, someone sends me something "revolutionary," that will "change the face of the industry as we know it."

9 out of 10 times, they've added an embossed flower pattern to the toilet-paper line.

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. I find bathroom accessories to be quite exhilarating

Toilet seat cover dispensers rule, man!!!!! :headbang:

[eyesroll]

19. Were you my 8:30?

[Beware the Beast Man]

22. Sure, if you'd like me to be....

Remember, I am in the business...:crazy:

[redqueen]

40. What do you think to yourself as these people are rattling on?

I often found my mind wandering when talking to SW engineers about their beloved features... does that happen to you?

[eyesroll]

41. All the time.

I like a little bit of the science (polymer chemistry fascinates me for some reason) but sometimes it's just...

will.
you.
people.
please.
shut.
up.
already.

Your product hasn't changed in 50 years; changing its color is not a revolution.
:eyes:

[redqueen]

42. Pretty straightfoward.

I found myself wondering what they did in their spare time... looking at their clothes, their hair... even evaluating their personal hygeine (shaving, nose hair, etc.)... wondering what their spouses must think about it, if they even noticed... if their kids did, etc.

I learned early to take a tape recorder in case I missed anything important. :)