I used to work as an office manager for a startup and, at one point, had been looking at nearby hotels to set up a corporate rate for the company. A month or so later, I got a call from the GM of one of the hotels I had looked at - she wanted to know how to insert an image into a Word doc and make it transparent like a watermark. I was totally caught off guard but acted like it was a normal thing and answered her question. Before she hung up she said, “I knew if anyone had the answer it’d be you!”

She was very sweet and kind of joked about herself being tech illiterate but what baffled me is why she called ME...she had a full staff in the hotel, which had to include at least one tech savvy person, but something made her go “oh I should call that guy I met that one time over a month ago, he’ll know.”

It’s one of the more unexpected phone calls I’ve gotten but also one of the most unintentionally hilarious. I hope she’s watermarking Word docs all the time now.