A Christmas Carol For John Heck- "mrs. Tannenbaum"
The following harkens to the past when I worked for a supremely idiotic furniture
company, and I, as other managers, had to explain to customers who waited 8-
12 weeks, on the day of promised delivery, or, if lucky, the night before, that their
furniture could not be expected for another 6-10 weeks...and outrage I had to
somehow make justification for. It's therefore called;
"Oh Mrs. Tannenbaum"
Oh Mrs. Tannenbaum,
Mrs. Tannenbaum,
Your furniture will not be coming....
Seems a volcano erupted,
And therefore interupted,
With the manufacture of your product,
We promise, when the lava is cleared away,
We'll put your piece as number 1
And, barring another incident,
With a disgruntled worker with a gun,
We should have your table ready,
For delivery....
Should it rain, of course,
It is with remorse,
We'll call you to postpone it,
Rest assured, we're bored,
Of playing cards an drinking beer,
Something always comes up,
To make us refill our cup,
And disappoint our customers...
Yet, to be quite true,
We're down to but you,
So we don't really care,
You had the balls,
To order a table,
Without a single chair!
Copyright © Tom Bell | Year Posted 2007
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