It’s April Fool’s Day, friends! JGL is known to go above and beyond for our clients. To that end, we have found ourselves in some scary, funny and downright embarrassing situations! Two out of three of these stories really happened. Which one do you think is a lie?!
Story #1: About seven years ago I was at a meeting that ended after-hours in the museum offices. I was escorted up to the meeting but when I left, I was on my own. I went down what I thought was the right number of flights, opened the door and found myself in a back of house area. The door to the stairs was locked, and I could not get back into the stairwell. Panicking, I looked for the closest exit door and pushed it. Very loud alarms started going off. I am sure I was on camera somewhere, but I pushed forward only to find myself in an outdoor enclosed garden surrounded by a hip-height wrought iron fence. I had no choice but to jump over the fence (in my skirt and heels). The mothers and kids playing in the adjacent park were very surprised by my appearance and to this day I am sure I am on that museum’s “funniest security video reel” somewhere.
Story #2: A few years ago, we were at a tasting for a science museum. The client asked us to share with the caterers that they were very interested in alternative protein sources and super foods. They asked the caterers to get creative with their interpretation. I think the client was expecting plant forward alternatives such as tofu and tempeh. Instead, we got insects, insects and more of insects. Cricket tacos, cinnamon crunchy mealworms atop our cheesecake and crunchy jerk hornworms. The CEO of the museum was adventurous and tried everything, the two board members on the committee were not so game, and the staff had mixed reactions. The JGL team took it in stride and voted the cricket tacos as their favorite.
Story #3: In a small town an hour outside the nearest metropolis, the snow started coming down. With single digit temperatures and scant plowing, we had scheduled meetings to attend. Ubers were nonexistent and Lyfts were few and far between, but thankfully present. We were able to get an early morning Lyft to a local bakery which came highly recommended by the museum staff as a possible provider for their future café. We devoured the delicious pastries and even though it was 8 am, we also tried their scrumptious pizza! It was time to get to the museum for meetings, but getting a Lyft was impossible. With full bellies, we ventured out into the falling snow, trudging a mile on the unplowed sidewalks in our dress shoes and suits. During that trip, the drivers we did manage to get were the real deal, including one that had done van tours of the Dalton Highway in Alaska, one of the northern-most roads in the world!
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