So I am in a desprite need of a break. I will finally get a mini vacation on Wed-Fri. :)
One way to tell that you are in need of some time off is when you show up at work with two different color shoes on. Grrr! I have one brown shoe on and one purple shoe one O and an orange shirt.
O well it has given my co-workers a good laugh today.
What have you accidently done to get a good laugh at work?
I've done that before..lol! Not two different colors but 2 different black shoes. And the sad (and funny) thing is, I didn't even notice until I got home from work..lol! Thankfully I sit at desk for most of the day so I don't think anyone noticed.
Two that I can think of. I was talking to a co-worker Jeremy. The phone rang and I answered it. "Thank you for call Commercial Federal this is Jeremy how...wait no it's not."
Jeremy laughed till he cried.
The other time, I had a little girl come up to me at work and say she was lost. I asked her who she was with.
"My dad."
"Ok. What's your dad's name and I'll call him on the PA."
"Whicard Whacker" I paused...
"Richard Whacker?"
"Yes." Oh Lord. So over the whole entire store I called out,
'Richard Whacker to the front of the store. Richard Whacker, please come to the front of the store."
If that doesn't make sense as to why it's embarrassing. I worked with a bunch of perverted old people and college age boys and of course a nickname for Richard is Dick. Get it now?
I did that once! Very embarrassing. Darn getting dressed in the dark!
I worked in retail. And we regularly used a PA system and intercom to communicate.
We had several customers that were "out there". One lady in particular we specifically called "The Crazy Lady". She would corner workers and tell them all about her conspiracy theories. She had a special way of slurring her words and bobbing and floating about. (She was probably on something.)
Anyhoo...one day (in my early 20's) I saw she was in the store, and was heading over to my friends corner of the store. I thought I was on the intercom...but I hit the PA instead-and announced "The Crazy Lady is coming, The Crazy Lady is coming!!!"
Lol. I'm sure I looked like the crazy lady that day.
I have spent most of the day in an inside-out shirt before! And once when I was 20 and working my first office job I was told they would be taking pictures of employees for the company website so I spent extra time getting ready in the morning with my hair and make-up trying to look pretty and professional, my sweety had the car running and we had to LEAVE NOW so I threw on my blouse and skirt and hurried off to work, after I got there I realized I had forgotten to put on a bra! But at least I had good boobs back then :)
I was wearing a light pink colored pair of pants one day and had just filled my coffee cup and .... sneezed. The coffee went up like a volcano and came down all over me. Lovely to have a nice coffee stain all over my pink pants.
These aren't work stories, but I can think of 2 dumb things I have done. Once I sprayed my hair with sunblock rather than hairspray.
The other day I learned that my parking lot is in fact flat. I drive a car with a manual transmission and I was so out of it the night before that when we got home I didn't leave it in gear or pull the e brake. So glad it was there in the morning!
I will be laughing at it tomorrow but right now I have a massive headache from fixing it. I came in Saturday to run reports for today and ended up deleting about 40 hours of work. :(
To me that says I need a break or at least don't clean my file system after running reports for 8 hours. :(
All fixed now but the headache.
I was in my office, with my coworker (male), our boss comes in with a tray of yummy cannoli, saying it's his birthday. Other 3 colleagues (all male) came in too, so there I proceed to get a cannolo first (being all gentlemen, they let me go first), while the others were getting and eating theirs, there I go taking the lead of the conversation (as my usual), blabbering on how great Sicily (that's where cannoli are from) is, how lovely the places, the weather, the food etc...until I see my boss hiding a chuckle and all the other colleagues looking away...what? What's the matter??? My boss goes: "You have a chunk of filling on the corner of your mouth..." They let me talk for, like, 10 minutes, with that thing on my face"!!!!!!!! When I said: "Why didn't you tell me right away, bunch of traitors???" they said: "You are always Ms. Perfect...It was too funny!". Coworkers...can't really trust them on these things, can you? Since then I have a small mirror on my desk...you never know!
we have 2 running jokes in our family right now:
How do you know you're getting old?
When your monthly poker party moves to Fri 1pm instead of Fri nite.
How do you know you're getting older?
When you reference reading the AARP magazine at a party.
The 1st would be my mom, & the 2nd was my sis. 2 funny!
Oh, & then we have my 15yo son! He was coming home from school after track practice. Looked down at his legs & said, "oh, that's where they are!" My DH asked him what he was talking about, & .....our son said he'd finally just figured out where his pants were. Crazy!
My husband is getting to be a grumpy old pain in the A$$. One day, my 5 YO and I were watching something on the Disney Channel and they said that the dad has "Old Man-itis." Well, I was dying. And now, when my hubby is cranky or makes a face at us wanting to do something, we say, poor daddy has Old Man-itis.
