Duckers & Diving: Breakfast isn’t served for Taylor

THIS week our intrepid scribe uncovers a tale familiar to many – being in the right place at the wrong time.

Tony Taylor, the ever popular ex-chairman of Birmingham Business Breakfast Club, is always willing to get up early to go networking.

So he agrees to meet city lawyer Adrian Hindmarsh at the regular Stourbridge Breakfast Club event at Hagley Hall, organised by legal firm Talbots.

Crawling out of his warm bed in the pitch black, he got into his Mercedes SLK 250 mid-life crisis and headed off into the country.

Arriving at the Hall in good time he was surprised to find the car park chained off and a distinct lack of expensive automobiles.

A second lap of the estate elicited few clues as to the whereabouts of suitable parking.

Finding a nice space by the front door he was just about to get out and claim his name badge when a lady beckoned him to drop his window.

Ever obliging, he did so only to be informed that the breakfast was actually the following week – not the second Wednesday as every other month!

She also informed Taylor that the Hall itself had muddled things up, setting up on the Tuesday night in anticipation of 100 hungry breakfasters.

Attempts to contact the illusive Hindmarsh – who had apparently twigged Taylor’s error, but failed to pass on the information (what a rotter!) – were in vain.

It took Taylor 50 minutes to commute back home to two sad slices of toast; a poor substitute for the anticipated calorie-loaded fry up.

A truly tragic tale in these hard times.