Practicalmadness

I just finished speaking with a gentleman who called my office line, asking “y’all develop web sites?” Usually when prospective clients call in, they introduce themselves, tell me how they found me, ask a bit about the kinds of things I build. This guy just said, “y’all develop web sites?” the same way you’d call a store and ask them if they sell DVD players or refrigerators.

He said he needed a login page. Okay, fine, so I ask what he needs the login page for. “Uh, I just want people to enter uh, a password when they come to the site before they can look at the pages. Ah have all the content up, ah just need the lawg-in page.” This does not sound like a serious inquiry for a serious web developer of my serious caliber, but I’m willing to play along a bit. So I ask him where’s his current site, so I can take a look at it.

“Mah site’s sheefetish.com.”
“Shoe fetish?”
“Naw. It’s S-as-in-sam, H-E-E-F-E-T-I-S-H.”
“Ooookay…checking it no— okay.”

This is what I saw:

I look at it, and it gives me the perfect exit strategy.

“Okay, sir, I should tell you that as a policy I don’t work on adult websites.”
“Oh. Okay. [click]”

In other news, if Starbucks is hiring I am totally going back to slinging coffee. I am so over the internet.