Anyone who knows Adam knows he doesn’t function well on little sleep. Let me rephrase that. He doesn’t function at ALL on little sleep. That fact was particularly unfortunate for me after we had our first baby. Even more unfortunate, was that he had just started a new job two weeks prior. But more on that in a minute.

What was always funny to me though, is that after Olyvia was born, it was more like a perceived lack of sleep that caused Adam to be in his delirious sleep deprived state. For starters, we had a baby nurse the first two weeks home from the hospital (so even I was getting a decent amount of rest then). And after she left, I was the only one waking up for the middle of the night feedings. Adam would be sleeping when I got up to feed her…and still sleeping peacefully when I returned. Yet I’d hear him on the phone the next day complaining how incredibly exhausted he was and how impossible it is to operate on no sleep. And the crazy part is, he actually was in bad shape as if he hadn’t slept.

So it was in this ‘perceived’ sleep deprived state that he traveled to his first work meeting down in PA. He had only been with the company a few weeks, and at that point had only met the team who interviewed and hired him. Being as exhausted as he was, naturally he overslept. He woke up in a panic, got ready as fast as he could and rushed down to his meeting (which was being held in the hotel conference room) about 45 minutes late.

The room was packed, and of course the only open seats were in the front…all the way inside the row. So he walked in as quietly as he could, trying to draw as little attention to himself as possible, and took his seat. He listened attentively to everything the presenter had to say. But after about 45 minutes, the presenter finally stopped, singled Adam out in the crowd and said: “Excuse me sir – but who are you?

Adam responded, “I’m Adam – I’m new to the company. Sorry I was late.”

And the presenter asked, “What company do you think this is?”

Adam responded with the name of his company.

And the presenter simply said: “You’re in the wrong company meeting sir. Didn’t you realize this presentation had nothing at all to do with your company?”

Adam quickly tried to explain about the new baby, the lack of sleep, not being able to function on no sleep, FINALLY having one night to sleep peacefully, etc. But ultimately just got out of there as fast as he could. And then needed to explain to his actual boss and team why he was an hour and a half late to his first business meeting with the company. #Shamdum