Owl Jacket

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There’s an Italian expression that isn’t used much anymore, but it’s giacca civetta, which literally means owl jacket.

And supposedly this is the jacket that you leave on your chair so that it looks like you’re still at work, but you’re actually out doing something else.

Oh!

A decoy jacket.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, I see.

So this is the equivalent of setting your monitor not to go to sleep, right?

And a document open and an innocuous document open and some few papers and a folder open and your chair kind of can’t to the side rather than pushed in.

I get it.

Yes, yes.

That’s exactly it.

No idea why it’s called an owl jacket.

And I actually ran this idea past a couple of Italian friends who live in Italy, and they said, eh, why bother?

Not one of those Northern European cultures where they would care.

Right, right. Who needs an owl jacket?

Just go. Run your errand. Have your long lunch.

That’s right. And while you’re doing that, give us a call, 877-929-9673.