Witty put down? Perhaps.
I forget its context now (which is probably a good thing vis a vis workplace confidentiality) but I’ve just remembered a response I’d miraculously come up with to a request of some sort. I say “miraculously” because the person making the unreasonable request (I’m sure it was unreasonable or I wouldn’t have responded like this) was still standing before me at the time.
What’s more (does this make it double miraculous?), the exchange was actually witnessed by beloved colleagues.
Anyway, you’ll be wondering what the response is. Trouble is, now that I come to finish off this post, it doesn’t seem quite as biting and clever as it did at the time. Oh well - you decide:
The trouble is that - what with all this global warming going on - it’s looking increasingly unlikely that conditions in Hell will ever be appropriate for me to do that.
You had to be there, I suspect.