"My Bad..."

I recently attended a tasting at a hotel a client is using for their upcoming event. We held events at this location before; however, it's been a few years and our old event manager has since moved on. Our newest one is a nice person overall...not sure if this is her first position out of college or close to it however.

Well, in the tasting after we all sat down, our event manager begins by saying that she meant to create an actual menu card for us but "to be quite frank, I forgot....My Bad..."

Oh dear. While the menu card features the food choices that we chose for our event, having one would have been a nice touch but not tragic going without. For each entree that we tasted, the chef introduced the plate and explained the items, which is the process at most menu tastings.

However, it was the casual "my bad" that more so made me cringe...and if it made you want to crawl under your desk or table, join the club....

How's that for an ending

Recently, I was sitting in an educational session at one of my industry conventions attentively listening to the panelists. The session was not quite done when all of a sudden a very loud voice came over the speaker system that mentioned something about children. At first, it was unclear whether someone on our panel was doing the speaking or if a question was being asked.

Then the voice continued to get louder and it became quite clear that the speaker from the session next door was bleeding over into our sound system. So we started to listen to his presentation amidst the bewildered stares and chuckles around the room. What made it even funnier was the audio visual staff who just sat in the back and shrugged it off -- AND the room was filled with a bunch of meeting planners who also didn't know what to do.

So the moderator ended the session...just like that. I guess I should have just started out next door!

The Chief Flub...

How about being one of the most anticipated and watched events of all time only to flub. Yessss,I am referring to the Inauguration of our 44th President Barack H. Obama and his oath of office administered by Chief Justice Roberts. Now everyone makes mistakes and perhaps Justice Roberts became nervous. I don't think anyone would have minded; however, if he simply referenced some notes...you know, just in case...