OutRAGEous accent-AH

I think I'm having a bout of social anxiety, but only when I'm in the office. I think this means it's time for a vacation. I was on a big, anonymous conference call today, and when I asked a question, I totally got embarrassed and tongue-tied.

It didn't help that the operated pronounced my name "Short-TIE-na." Come on, my name is not that hard. People are dumb. So, I was half-distracted by that and almost corrected her to the 30-some-odd people listening, but I just let it go. Then I stumbled through my question and thanked the answerer abruptly before he was finished. And it turned out I wasn't as anonymous as I thought. My snarky sales rep was listening too, and called me up shortly afterwards to "address my concerns."

Actually, it was fine. The main dude on the conference call addressed the question wonderfully. The companies involved are scattered all over the world, and all the speakers had, as Monty Python would say, "outRAGEous accent-ahs." (http://www.intriguing.com/mp/holygrail.asp--look, FRENCH.WAV under "Sounds."