Briefing the Generals

I was given the job of going to brief all these generals on the weather and I thought, well boy, I better be fast and clickety, clickety click. So they’ll know that here’s a guy who knows his stuff and no nonsense. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Because I was invited, my boss, the Senior Meteorological Officer was invited not to have me do any more of these forecasts. It was quite embarrassing. We were able to figure out why. If I just slowed it down and became less apparently efficient it would be a big improvement and it just happened once. But it was quite embarrassing to have my own generals saying I, the only Canadian in that office, they didn’t want him anymore.