![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(Taken out from my comment elsewhere).
There was this time in the army, when I needed to get a military car from the unit's car pool. I approached the NCO responsible (10 meters away from my office), tried to talk to him about the mission, but in vain. The conversation got interrupted time and again by phone calls. He would say "excuse me", pick up the phone, and engage in lengthy conversations about his work. After 2 or 3 interruptions I got frustrated. I returned to my room, called the NCO's office, got a busy signal, put the phone on automatic redial and waited. In a few minutes, the phone gave its special ring, and I was finally able to talk to the man without being interrupted. The matter was settled and the keys were waiting for me on his desk.
There was this time in the army, when I needed to get a military car from the unit's car pool. I approached the NCO responsible (10 meters away from my office), tried to talk to him about the mission, but in vain. The conversation got interrupted time and again by phone calls. He would say "excuse me", pick up the phone, and engage in lengthy conversations about his work. After 2 or 3 interruptions I got frustrated. I returned to my room, called the NCO's office, got a busy signal, put the phone on automatic redial and waited. In a few minutes, the phone gave its special ring, and I was finally able to talk to the man without being interrupted. The matter was settled and the keys were waiting for me on his desk.
