"Quick Question"

"I have a quick question"

I breathe heavily.. I sigh..I stare back at the person to who that previous comment belonged. Eager to learn, typical of a new hire... always asking questions... expand their understanding, i got no problem with that.

So why does this comment bother me so much?

Cuz there is nothing QUICK about these questions. And typically these questions are asked right as I'm about to leave for lunch, or for the day, or when I need to urgently visit the facilities.

Today is one of the latter. I sigh to myself.. I know whats coming... I brace myself, wondering to myself, if I might rue this day in my 60's when I lose all bladder control and it gets traced to me holding it in during my 20s'! Resigned to my fate, I ask..."Newbie, whats up?"

"I have a quick question. I was just wondering, can you explain to me the concept behind how I can continue a call on my cell-phone as I'm driving through multiple networks of Verizon, Cingular and Sprint, even though I only have a T-Mobile account"

Yowza!
I'd much sooner be asked to derive the value of Pi from first principles. Anyways, I do my best to answer the question. Forty-five minutes, and a whole lot of frivolous nodding by the rookie, conveying the incorrect message that they understand what you just said, later, I excuse my self from that conversation, just in time to avoid having the same reaction as a four-yr-0ld after a nightmare...

As I'm standing at the urinals, it dawns on me as to what a good "quick question" should be like.

Quick Question: "What's the rule about choosing urinals at a 3-urinal-restroom, when all 3 of them are open"


Quick Answer: "Respect the buffer!!!! Always choose the corner urinals, NEVER the middle one"

sigh, why can't I get "quick questions" like that one?