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I've got a few, but I'll share one for now:
A few years ago, we had a young new broker working with us who was a pretty good guy, even if he was from Alabama. He went out after a work function and met a very nice young lady that he tried but failed to convince to come home with him. They parted on good terms, though.
At the same time, one of our other young brokers, who was the first one's best friend in the office, was working in London on an exchange program. These two would usually talk and email a couple of times a day just to shoot the shit. The first guy told the second about the woman the night before and that he'd kind of liked her. Unfortunately, he mentioned her name (which was Indian-sounding [dot, not woo-woo]).
Well, the guy in London, having some time to burn, set up a hotmail address with as close to a phonetic spelling of the name as he could and email the guy back here. They flirted back and forth until the guy in the US suggested they meet for lunch. That's when the second guy called several of us in the office to get help.
We gathered a big lunch crew (it was a Friday and coinidentally our summer interns' last day) and told the first guy where we were going. Then we set up a big reservation at a restaurant that we'd already told the London guy to get the first to. We got there about 20 minutes ahead of him and got the maitre'd involved (he thought it was awesome).
When the first guy walked into the restaurant, the maitre'd greeted him by name (we'd given him a picture, but he'd been there in the past and was just arrogant enough to think they'd remember him) and took him back to his table. Which was right next to ours. And only had one place setting.
The best part was that he honestly didn't get it for about 10 minutes. He just sort of looked at us while we all laughed. Finally he said, "well, I'm waiting for a date, so I'll talk to you guys later." Someone (maybe me, I don't really remember) asked him what the chances were of someone setting up a dummy hotmail account, emailing him so he'd show up in front of all of and then having all of us sitting next to him and his "date" at a table with one place setting. He ended up storming out and was all pissed off for about a week.
The cherry on the sundae, though, was later that afternoon when he was in the hallway retelling his side of the story about what assholes we all were to the girl that he had a big crush on. She asked the name of the other girl, and when he told her, she vaguely described an Indian girl with the body-type he'd like. Of course that sounded JUST LIKE her, so she said, "I don't ever use the word 'hate', but I HATE her. She was my roommate our freshman year of college and she's the biggest bitch in the world." None of which was true.
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