Thursday, October 14, 2004
The Hilarity Continues…
The Hilarity Continues...I have mentioned the woman that sits across from me many times. She brings many hours of laughter and entertainment to me and surrounding cubemates. This morning was no exception.
Apparently it started while I was in a meeting... so I missed how it began. However, I arrived back at my desk to find her on a phone call to a helpdesk and cleaning her keyboard with that canned air stuff. I glanced at Lori on my way in and she was silently laughing so hard her eyes were glistening with tears. I knew I had missed something big. But I sat down to get back to work.
It continued. Whatever I missed - I still got all the entertainment I could handle!
She was on the phone with a helpdesk. I say "a" helpdesk because, as it turned out, this was not work related. Apparently she got a virus on her home computer and, instead of calling the helpdesk from home with her computer in front of her, she decided to wait until she got to work the next day to make the phone call. That's right. She called to see if they could fix her home computer while she was at work. I am assuming the conversation would have been even funnier if I had heard it from the beginning...
The conversation in itself would have been enough to push anyone over the edge, add to that the fact that Lori is sitting at her desk desperately singing to herself to try and block out some of the sound. I lost it myself when I heard the words, "Zippity do dah...Zippity Eh..." AND someone was playing some sort of opera music nearby, so every once in awhile the whole affair was punctuated with a high pitched trilling... Of course that would have pushed anyone over the edge, then Terry decides to IM Lori and I. He was making various comments on things the woman was saying:
Woman: Well, when I first got it and was installing the worm virus was infecting me
Terry via IM: Ewe she is infected with worms!
Lori via IM: EEEEWWWWWWEEEEE
Woman: You promise you will call me? Promise? tehehehe
Terry: He promises never to call her...
Elizabeth: "I was totally going to call, but I suddenly got ill and had to go home early..."
This went on and on for about a half hour, at which point we decided to call it quits and get back to work. We knew it was mean, but we just couldn't resist...
I think the woman is missing her other cubemates, she keeps trying to involve herself in our conversations. I am sitting with my headphones on trying to look VERY busy so she won't get the urge to talk to me. I know it is mean, but I am afraid that she is one of those people who take advantage of any kindness and suddenly become your best friend. I have a best friend. Actually I have more than one, but that isn't the point. I don't need another. Especially one that claims her cube is usually clean though I personally think there may be something growing over there...
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As you wake in the morning
What do you feel?
Does a rush of happiness
wash over you when,
Suddenly, you realize you are alive?
