Plan B

Everything fitted into Plan A.

OK so there was only an hour between the Networking Seminar and the customer appointment but suddenly I thought: "Oh look, there's the guy who's designing me a website. I must just have a word..."


And there was two hours between the customer and my clarinet lesson and I planned to pop in to a business customer on the way....

And I've been so lax on the public duty front that I really couldn't refuse to spend an hour beside the road with the community speed camera....

And the car needed a new headlight bulb...

So there I was at four O'clock having given out no DVDs and only half a dozen cards but then my friend the computer expert said he wouldn't be able to get to me much before five O'clock.

Aha! I jumped in the car and headed for people.

The first I saw were a group of mothers picking up their children from a nursery.

"Hi, I'm glad I've found you. I'm always on the lookout for people with children who'd like to earn an extra income alongside the one they've got already. Would that be you?"

"Might be," said two of them.

So I told them what it was about and they both considered for a minute and then came out with this: "All our friends have husbands who earn a lot of money so we wouldn't be interested."

The guy in the motor accessories shop had already seen the DVD (I was glad to see he'd been given it by a member of my team) but next door was the insurance office. Now I've been in here before but that was a long time ago. So why not try again?

This time there was a really cheerful and animated young woman and within a couple of minutes she could see that what I had would be absolutely perfect for her. Now why couldn't we have met when there had been bags of time. Never mind, she's got the DVD and we'll talk again on Monday.

And next door, the owner of the Indian restaurant was just letting himself in for his busy Friday night: "Hi, I'm John Passmore and you are...? Great to meet you. I'm a local business owner and I wonder if you could do me a favour..."

As I told him what all this was about, it was as if a light came on. He weighed the DVD in his hand and looked at it and said seriously: "Yes, I'm sure that's something I would be very interested in."

And then it was time to go and oversee the battle of the microchips (which, I can tell you is not yet won...)

So there are still four DVD's in my planner - and a stack of cards in my pocket.

But maybe some days numbers aren't everything. I'll let you know on Monday.