Check here to use phone.
☑ Check here to use phone
Man, memory lane.
Blaque tosses me an IM:
<bq> So, the phone at this desk has a piece
of paper taped to the handset, and that piece of paper says, “Check here to
use phone.”
My response is, essentially, “Huh?” I mean, it sounds familiar. Should
I get the reference? Was it a New Filing
Technique strip I’d read and forgotten about?
He responded:
<bq> You moron.
<bq>
You wrote that.
<bq> This was your phone.
After some more prodding, it all came flooding back. We were working on
a shameless ecommerce site
(in a previous life of mine) and
were forced to implement a product-view page that would add the product
to your cart … if you checked a box. It was a JavaScript hook
on a form checkbox that would go and (pop up a window, I think, and) add
the product to your cart.
This made my UI-spider-sense tingle so much (not in a good way) that I think I
went around the office, tagging everything with little labels: “Check here to
open door.” “Check here to flush toilet.” Each label had a small square box
leading the text. (Look, I was young and angry! Impetuous youth! And all
that.)
It turns out that Blaque is consulting for SAPE again, and—on his last
day consulting—is sitting at a desk (actually Tim’s) at One
Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA with my old phone at it.
What do you call it when you can’t remember if you really did something
yourself, or simply read about it somewhere?