freestyleswimmer 100 Report post Posted April 16, 2008 ........... always ensure that both outgoing and incoming emails have been received, following up with telephone calls. Learn from my (not mistake, but) mishap. A few weeks ago, I contacted a soon-to-visit-Ottawa lady from Montreal, asking if she would be free on weekday x at 6pm (I finish work at 5pm) and where would she be staying (for the incall) and incidentally what her hourly rate was (her website ad didn't say). I never heard from her and thought that, OK, she did not like something about my email or my name (I did use my real email). (Att Lady. If you're reading this, you know who you are and who I am. Only the Mods here know my true identity. Let's keep it this way until my ashes are scattered over ....wherever.) Then imagine my surprise when I received on day x, late in the evening, an email from her wondering where I was, why I didn't show up for our 6pm rendez-vous. (I liked the fact that she sounded -in writing- more worried at my not showing up than ired at my having stood her up). I searched throughout my email client and could NOT find any trace of that email. I emailed her back -expressing my apologies for an error not my own- and opining that the only explanation that made sense to me (as a geek) was that, perhaps, my email provider (I use two: Google's gmail and another one) had deleted her email as SPAM since the Subject contained the string "escort". Her reply with a blank subject reached me without problem. I immediately phoned her and we laughed about this over the phone and made another rendez-vous. The moral of the story: Always make absoluterly certisure that your communication is 100% clear, received, ACKnowledged and understood. Good luck. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
