Why is Friday afternoon sooooo long?

I should be packing up my office but I mostly want to sleep. (We're doing an office/job reshuffle - I'm losing my office with the window and having to be a receptionist again. I understand why but that doesn't make it easier and I can't help but feel like I've failed.)

I always hated the white elephant exchanges, because someone would get something they liked and immediately have it taken away from them.

Also, sometimes you end up with post-its. No, wait, it wasn't post-its, because they weren't even sticky. It was just a bunch of paper squares. Yeah, thanks ever so, swap contributor!

Allyson, how can you possibly be a big loser? And if you are, what kind of slime-off-the-bottom-of-the-pond scum are the rest of us?

And if you are, what kind of slime-off-the-bottom-of-the-pond scum are the rest of us?

WORD.

Our white elephant gifts one year were so hysterically bad that the most covetted item was a 6 pack of generic athletic socks. It was a small sarcastic group. The fun was in trying to offload whatever horrible thing you received. And rag on the person who brought that item.

I don't like white elephant exchanges for that same reason. I don't usually have the heart to take things away from people.

The Office also did a painfully good episode about Christmas gift exchanges. They get a lot of things right on that show.

The fun was in trying to offload whatever horrible thing you received.

See, now, I totally get that. I went to one of those, and got something totally random and ridiculous, and it's fine. It just sucks when there are some kind of cool or useful things, and you get... paper.

I once was at a white elephant gifty thing where one of the items was a Penthouse Forum. (This was a long time ago, before most of us had the internet for porn.)

For anyone who's ever done presentations.

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And if you are, what kind of slime-off-the-bottom-of-the-pond scum are the rest of us?

Yeah, dude. I don't have a book OR a cat, let alone a frickin' man and some root.