I just spent about 50 minutes reading this... its great stuff!.
I have a few examples:
The client wanted a website about bands:
[client] I want you to do the logo like mp3.com, but not so dont get in trouble.
[me] Uhh... ok
next day
[me] Here, how are these... they don't look too similar but convey the same feel.
[client] What? You haven't done much??!...
(he contacted me at 11pm the night before, and had expected me to have produced a couple of layouts, and 10-20 logos or something ridiculous.…