What I am Posting Instead of Oh, Say, Cooking Brownies

• It's Gary's fault; if he hadn't bought new stamps I would have been at the grocery and picked up necessary brownie stuff.

• I also haven't used the glue gun to do minor shipping repairs on Judith's whimsical sculpture, either. (It's mine now! I scored! You can get your own! At http://judibleu.etsy.com.) I love it - the photo doesn't do it justice.

• I appear to be loosening up at my new job. I had this conversation today, with Oy-jay and Ott-scay, who sit across the cube wall from me:
  
  Oy-jay: (coughs violently, as she has been doing for two months)
  Me: Hey, when you went to the hospital with pneumonia, was it bacterial pneumonia?
  Oy-jay: (perkily) Yes! It was!
  Ott-scay: Yeah and then she came to work and coughed all over us.
  
  Then I paused, and blandly said ...
  Me: You probably killed my Mom.
  
  Heh. It was great. Poor woman.
  

Comments

[Sherri]

Congratulations! You have achieved your "Give Guilt" superpower! Soon the world will be looking at you with big, tear filled eyes (Hey, it goes well with your ability to make people cry!)

As superpowers go, it's not that bad, really. Now I'm kind of scared of you.

[Sara]

Oh, sing it. I hate people who come to work contagious. I do think they kill other people, and it makes me wish to do violence to them -- except I don't want to go near them, or I'm already too weak from catching their crud.

[Candy]

Oh.my.god. I want to be in a cubicle next to you. We would get nothing done. It would be awesome.

[magpie]

Wow. And if she worked in NYC, she'd have coughed on the entire NYC subway system too.

[Amy in StL]

So you know how some workplaces give awards for people who don't have any absences? I think there should be awards for people who stay HOME when they're sick. No-one here does that, they just live with Lysol and hand sanitzer at their desks.

[Becs]

A guy at work - in his late 50s, heavy smoker - has been complaining of a sinus infection since JANUARY.

My bet? Lung cancer. How many times does this guy have to go to the doctor before someone does a chest x-ray?

[Heidi]

Oh, I love it! People coming to work sick is my biggest pet peeve.

[TheQueen]

Sherri - Neh - that lady doesn't feel guilty. She laughed. But I AM up at 1:30 from baking brownie for certain people.
Sara - Did you ever read The Mirror Cracked by Agatha Christie? You'd like that.
Candy - Oh, but I would tell you to shut up very rudely if you bless me when I sneeze. i hate that. Waste of work time.
Magpie - Maybe someday NY will be like Japan where everyone wears masks.
Amy - TeddyJ has the hand sanitizer on every wall by a bathroom.
Becs - Theres a woman at work who, every time she laughs, it turns into a cough, and then a constipated grunting sound. I think she has lung cancer.
Heidi - They should work from home at least, TeddyJ lets them.

[Friend #3]

I work three cubicles down from the Queen, Candy. You'll get stuff done. She summarily dismisses you after a few minutes of innocuous banter.

[TheQueen]

Friend #3 - You all get back at me the way you shut up when I walk in.