Field Notes Inside an Integrated Communications Agency

Was at WholeFoods in Durham, NC waiting on line to pay for my salad and overheard two executive types talking about one of their clients, presumably.

They were talking about how their client was going to fire them for some reason. One guy says to the next, "Hell, we need to charge them for everything under the sun if they are going to fire us."

"I'll be gettin' Shelly on that this afternoon." 

The next thing I heard made me laugh out loud. One of the guys says to other, "The robber that laughs last steals from the thief... Keats." He actually said that and finished it off with, "Keats"

I could barely maintain my composure as a good eavdesdropper. This dude not only had the spirit of the quote wrong but maligned the quote itself and he attributed incorrectly. That is worth a thousand points isn't it?

If I am not mistaken, the quote is from Shakespeare's Othello and is actually, "The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief." And in the scenario I overheard, it would be the client whose smiling, not the crooked executive. Damn that was funny. I hope it really backfires for them.