Friday, September 25, 2009

GORDON


NODROG KRATS was the reverse of Gordon's name. I remember this because he used to have a name plaque on his desk. This was in the small office that he shared during the week with flash Ray and nice Ivan. The office area was only about 20 ft by 14 ft and had 3 desks in it. Perhaps Gordon thought that the others would forget his name.
On Saturdays and after Gordon went home at 5PM his desk was used by hairy truck drivers while they pretended to be totalling up their accounts. In reality they were rifling through Gordon's drawers and would reverse his name. I can't remember how they did that, perhaps the name plaque was made up of removable letters. I do remember though that in the morning when Gordon came in he would have to reverse the letters while complaining about the morons who worked on Saturday. The Curmudgeon could have modelled himself on Gordon. He was the archetypal grumpy old man.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

We seem to be crossing paths here, The Wine Guy, I'm presently doing a series on people who worked at Murray Roberts too.
The New Wine Guy

THE WINE GUY said...

Don't cross my path if I'm driving.

Anonymous said...

Don't want to be friendly then?
The New Wine Guy