I don't speak with him very often.... but I needed to get some stuff done for my sister which required special forms - E-documents... so I called him. I'd say it took 10 minutes on the phone to get things worked out... but I was on the phone with him for 1 hour and 6 minutes, ( I checked).... why you ask? Well, no, asking why didn't even occur to you but I'm going to tell you anyway...
The Rams SB Victory, that's why. I had no idea the guy was even a football fan. Turns out he's a diehard Charger fan. During the call I managed to bring up the Ram's winning the SB.... I'm very good about getting that topic into any and all conversations. Mentioned it... and we were off.
As you know, Lord knows I've said it enough, I'm NOT a telephone kinda guy... hate phone calls in general with few exceptions... old friends catching up, Rams... that's about it. Now here's what surprised me.. I expected him to mention Stafford, Kupp, Donald... but this guy was talking about Gaines, Hopkins, Powell, Weddle... and that I did NOT expect.
He knew his stuff, he knew RAMS stuff... so the phone call was mostly high praise for my Rams, and congrats.... so the 1 hour and 6 minutes was WELL worth my time... wouldn't have minded had it been even a little longer.