It’s been a busy month for Flow PR, filled with exciting client events, including the World Climate Summit. But perhaps one of the most fun events was the Critical Thinkers Forum on the Human Genome, which took place in Cape Town.
It’s never fun having to get up at four in the morning to take that early morning flight to Cape Town, but we accomplished it without incident – both Shoni and
I got safely on the plane.
Image courtesy of coda
The optimism that this good start engendered was dealt a swift blow when, upon arrival at the car rental agency at Cape Town International, we discovered that one of us, who shall remain nameless but was unfortunately the designated driver, had managed to leave their driver’s licence behind.
When we discovered that to add a new driver would cost exactly the same as the original car hire cost, we displayed our usual ability to swiftly regroup, and leapt into a metered taxi, making it to the Baxter Theatre Centre, where the event was taking place, in plenty of time to organise the video crew we had booked for
the event.
From then on, everything was plain sailing, and our clients were suitably impressed with our professionalism and organisation. However, once the event was over, and we left the Baxter, we realised that there was not a taxi rank in sight…
Not daunted, we hailed a passing mini-bus, and made our way to the Cape Town City Centre taxi rank, accompanied by whistling and cries of “Taxi, taxi!” from the jump jockey in the back all the way. Such was the sense of camaraderie that at one stage, how I don’t know, Shoni discovered that he had volunteered to buy KFC for all the passengers!
We managed to get out of this unexpected late lunch date, and made our way to the waterfront, where we succeeded in catching a taxi back to the airport. To our surprise, we bumped into other Flow Communications people there. You know your company’s growing at a rapid rate when you unexpectedly see your colleagues at the airport, to paraphrase Tara.
We returned home, safely on our flight, in spite of various attempts on the parts of our colleagues to sabotage us – personally, I don’t see the value in having your name called as the person who is delaying the flight, but each to his own…