a leg to stand on
Nov. 20th, 2005 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7Z told me this Inspiring Story on Friday night while we were waiting for a table at the Pearl St. brewery. We were standing around with a couple of beers, and had put on mittens so the beers didn't get warm/ our hands didn't get cold. Just to set the scene.
So. Inspirational Story.
So there's a sushi restaurant on the street just off which we live (nice grammar, hm?), just a ways down. It has been there a long time, and is a fairly posh restaurant. (There are actually a number of rather posh restaurants on our street, which is funny, given that everything else on it is auto garages. It is a pretty nice neighborhood, and the street is the border line between the city and the town.)
It has advertised in Z's newsweekly for many years now, and so they've a pretty good relationship.
Well. A little while ago the restaurant's owner was in a terrible motorcycle accident. He was on life support for several days, and they had to amputate much of his left leg. However. He is so happy to be alive that he doesn't mind one bit about the leg. So he had his portrait professionally taken, in his chef's uniform, standing with a platter of sushi condiments in one hand and a gigantic dead fish in the other, wearing a big grin on his face, and with his uniform pinned up so you can see his leg is missing.
He wants to run this portrait as an advertisement in the newsweekly. And, in the space where the leg is missing, he wants to write, "Our competition hasn't got a leg to stand on!"
The art department, a little warily, put this together and sent it to him. He liked it so much he decided to increase the size of the ad and run it in color (expensive!).
"But," the ad sales rep said cautiously, "we are going to get a lot of calls from people offended by this."
His response was to ask that the phone number be taken for every offended person, and given to him: he'd call them back and tell them all about how happy he was to be alive, so very happy that he didn't care about a stupid leg or not.
So. Inspirational Story.
So there's a sushi restaurant on the street just off which we live (nice grammar, hm?), just a ways down. It has been there a long time, and is a fairly posh restaurant. (There are actually a number of rather posh restaurants on our street, which is funny, given that everything else on it is auto garages. It is a pretty nice neighborhood, and the street is the border line between the city and the town.)
It has advertised in Z's newsweekly for many years now, and so they've a pretty good relationship.
Well. A little while ago the restaurant's owner was in a terrible motorcycle accident. He was on life support for several days, and they had to amputate much of his left leg. However. He is so happy to be alive that he doesn't mind one bit about the leg. So he had his portrait professionally taken, in his chef's uniform, standing with a platter of sushi condiments in one hand and a gigantic dead fish in the other, wearing a big grin on his face, and with his uniform pinned up so you can see his leg is missing.
He wants to run this portrait as an advertisement in the newsweekly. And, in the space where the leg is missing, he wants to write, "Our competition hasn't got a leg to stand on!"
The art department, a little warily, put this together and sent it to him. He liked it so much he decided to increase the size of the ad and run it in color (expensive!).
"But," the ad sales rep said cautiously, "we are going to get a lot of calls from people offended by this."
His response was to ask that the phone number be taken for every offended person, and given to him: he'd call them back and tell them all about how happy he was to be alive, so very happy that he didn't care about a stupid leg or not.
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Date: 2005-11-20 05:48 pm (UTC)I imagine that normally, he uses a prosthetic to walk? He can't be just hopping around carrying platters and dead fish. :)
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Date: 2005-11-20 11:38 pm (UTC)[The accident was fairly recent, so he's in a wheelchair right now while, we imagine, he gets fitted for a peg.]
- Z