Business of Pleasure

Ever get one of those customer appreciation surveys in a restaurant or theatre show? Yeah, me too.

Ever get to the point in the survey that doesn't apply to you (EX. 'company name' when you don't have one)? Yeah, me too....

Ever put in something funny and, in your opinion, amusing just to sort of spice it up a little? yeah, me too...

Ever actually have the funny little joke come back to embarrass the heck out of you? yeah, me too.

I have always loved putting in a few little funny things in any type of survey that I get. When I go for spa treatments I give answers to make the person reading it do a double take. There is the standard one where it asks for "sex:" and you write in "yes, please, as often as I can" My personal favorite is when it asks "are you pregnant?" to which I usually respond "If I am I would be written up in medical journals right now". Well, today I found out that one from my past came back to haunt me.

December 16th was the Mrs and my 3rd wedding anniversary. We had a great day of just lazing around the house watching a couple movies followed by a nice dinner out at a great Indian place called Khazana (best briyani rice she has had since coming to Canada) and then a nice walk home in a rather surprising mild evening. We had gotten a call a week ago from Jubilation's dinner theatre mentioning how we are on file, somehow, showing our wedding anniversary on the 16th and that they would like to give us a 25% off for us and any of our guests to come to a dinner theatre evening 30 days after our anniversary. So today, after contacting a couple friends and seeing if they were interested in coming out with us, I called the Jubilation's to set up the reservation. Here is how it went:

(J)ubilation's: Good morning, Jubilation's dinner theatre, how may I help you?

(M)e: Yes, good morning, I was wondering if I could make reservations for the 30th.

J: certainly, can I get your name?

M: Umm, I was wondering, our anniversary was yesterday...

J: happy anniversary

M: thanks...umm, yeah we got a call a week ago saying that we could get a discount cause of our anniversary. Is that still available?

J: of course, you have 30 days after your anniversary to use it.

** a minute of gathering information like what show we are interested in, what date we want, how many people will be attending, the price, seating locations available and gathering of my phone number **

J: Ok, so we are showing *name* with *last name* Business of Pleasure, is this correct?

M: umm...oh...ummm..yeah...yeah, that is me.

J: do you have a corporate account?

M: umm, no..no I don't.

J: well, you would be eligible for a corporate rate so you can have a discount on all your reservations. Just something to keep in mind.

M: Thank you, I will have to keep that in mind.

** we confirm cost, dates and times and say our farewells **

Turns out once when I was filling out the customer appreciation cards at the end of a show a few months ago I happened to put in, for a laugh, under the 'company name' the Business of Pleasure name. I used that name on an answering machine long ago when I was going to college. The answering machine announcement went like:

"Thank you for calling *LAST NAME* Business of Pleasure. None of our service representatives can come to the phone right now because they are out pleasing other clients but if you leave your name and number we will get back to you as soon as possible. And remember, here at *LAST NAME* Business of Pleasure, your pleasure is our business"

So, when I was filling out the form I put it in and I guess they took it seriously and put it down on their file. I mentioned this to the Mrs and she laughed really hard. She kept telling me that I had to post this. I hope that you all find it as amusing as the two of us did.