Sports: They bring people together.
· 2:25 PM
Like many modern development houses, we have outsourcing teams in India. Two contractors are visiting.
THE BOSS: So....how's India's cricket team looking this year?
THE INDIANS: (who know what's coming) Pretty strong.
THE BOSS: So...who won last year in the Australian/Indian series?
THE INDIANS: (steely-eyed) Pretty sure it was Australia.
THE BOSS: Ah, yes...
THE BOSS: *sips water*
THE BOSS: *pauses*
THE BOSS, WHO IS AUSTRALIAN: (smiling like a dingo with a baby in its mouth) Actually, I quite knew that already.
Later - they all agreed to anticipating each team's smackdown of the U.K.
Sports: They bring people together.*
*Which has inspired me to create a series of posters depicting brutal U.S. football tackles, or hockey fights, or boxing matches and adding that phrase as an inline caption. If I only had time...