"The pipes have burst, the studio is flooded!"



Occasionally I hear a really good story from a customer. This is one of them. I don't know if it's true or not, but it seems true, so it might as well be.

I was talking to this customer about Fleetwood Mac while making a latte. He says, "One of my best friends from high school was their tour manager in the late 70's." I said I thought that was pretty cool, and we talked some more about the Mac, and in the course of that he told me this story:

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His friend the tour manager was asleep in bed when he gets a phone call from Stevie Nicks. She's on the phone screaming that the pipes have burst, the studio is flooded and all the equipment is ruined.

"Why don't you call the plumber," the tour manager says.

Stevie screams, "we already called all the plumbers in the phone book, none of them will come. You have to come over here right now."

The tour manager sighs, "Why don't you call the fire department, they'll come turn off the water for you."

This enrages Stevie even further, "The fire department said they wouldn't come, you have to come over here right now." She slams the phone down.

So he gets in his car and he drives over to the studio at 4am, and when he gets there, all five of them are standing on chairs and tables, screaming and freaking out because the whole place is flooded and all of their gear is ruined.

So he looks down at his feet, and there's no water. There's no burst pipe, there's no leak, there's nothing. The carpet's not even damp, yet all five of them truly believed that their studio was now a lake.

They were so coked out that they had all convinced themselves the room they were in was flooded, all of their possessions were destroyed, and the only person who could fix the problem was their sleepy tour manager.
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Like I said, I have no way of proving whether or not this story is true, but even if it's not, it's so hilarious that it doesn't matter.
- posted by Mason @ 11:42 PM