This morning a colleague from a distant department of the Company called. Seeing as how all souls in her group were out of the office, could I perform a "Dental Presentment" for her. My mind raced and I frantically interrupted her to say that I had no idea how to do that and she must have mistaken me for someone else -- I was not going to get saddled with some onerous and foreign task I thought.

A silence ensued, during which I realised that she was not asking for a "Dental Presentation", which I assumed was pitching our dental insurance product to some other corporation. Definitely not my job. No, a "presentment" would refer to details on checks presented against a bank account, information I had only to swivel my chair to one side to access, information which is practically as common as breathing in my job.

So I stammered past the lacunae in both our conversation and my comprehension and managed to steer clear of further evidence spongiform delusions.