From time to time, people say unexpected things in the comments section below this column, but the other day one remark stood out. It came from a reader demanding something to be done about the parlous state of the business card.
“I am sick of being given all manner of excuses by younger professional people in meetings for why they have no card to give me,” this person fumed. “I just say, if you want me to remember you were at this meeting, you can bloody well give me a card: otherwise in a week, when I look at my cards from this trip, you will have ceased to exist.
“What’s WITH these sheepish slobs? Why don’t their bosses insist? Why didn’t their parents teach them?”