Travis, Tim and Jeff came into the office. Tim and Jeff were laughing uproariously.

“What’s so funny guys?”

Travis has been having a great time in his stint as an engineering vacation student. In fact, a few days ago, Tim, Jeff and the other hydrogeologists had taken him out to the pub and now Trav was on friendly terms with half the office.

Sheepish, Travis explained what had happened.

I got into the lift with Tim and Jeff and we started to talk, you know, just general stuff. Anyway, people got in and out of the lift. One of them was this old guy and there were the three of us and him.

I was telling Tim and Jeff about how I was listening to the cricket on my computer. “It’s bloody fantastic,” I said. “Justin taught me! You can listen to it live streaming from The Age website. I just plug my headphones in, stare blankly at my computer screen and I can spend the whole day like that. And the best thing about it is that my boss taught me how to do it! Justin’s a guru!”

Tim and Jeff nodded, and they had these sort of blank looks on their faces. I asked them if they had ever done it before, listen to the cricket on the computer. They said, “No. What was the score?”

I told them as we stepped out of the lift. As soon as the old guy left, Tim and Jeff are laughing hysterically. ” All right, what’s going on, guys?” I said. “What was with the, ‘Uh huh, okay’ stuff? You’re normally cricket mad.”

And they kept laughing. “Trav,” Tim said. “That was the CEO of the company. You just screwed up big time.”