the rich and the poor

friday night, reached home late for my hero on smallville. went online straightaway as boss assigned me a task from faraway to emailed someone in the US office as she left her adaptor in the classroom. i was supposed to ask her to retrieve it and hand it to our field consultant who's still there. instead of emailing, i sametimed the person and when i waited few minutes without any reply, i emailed her. by then our field consultant was online so i sametimed him and pass the message as well. what do you know, he's already in the UK! lol. so then we asked the admin lady there to ship the adaptor for us. when another workmate of mine was online, i told her the story. i was telling her my thoughts on what would my boss excuse be on monday when she needs to borrow an adaptor from IT knowing how stingy IT was. her response was 'oh, she brought her network adaptor. what she left was the 2 pin plug'. COME ON!! so much hassle for something you can easily buy here. sigh, i guess that's the reason i can never be rich, eh!