I may have shot my mouth off today and said something not entirely professional to a co-worker, although in my defense, she started it.

So I have a pimple on the inside corner of my right nostril. It hurts like a sumbitch. I was rubbing the tip of my nose while sitting in the accounting dept today and said, outloud, "I have nose cancer. There is cancer in my nose."

My co-worker, who is known for her inane and sometimes insulting quips says, "Well what do you expect with a nose that big?"

At which point, my brain turned off and my mouth went to eleven. I may have said, "No one with an ass that size should be calling anything on anyone else 'big'."

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Ooops.

I think I lost my motivation today. Can't seem to get into full "work" gear.

I think I lost my motivation today.

I've been looking for mine since June... You'd think it would have turned up by now

It's the weather omnis. I feel like I could pass out right here at the keyboard. I would leave early, but everyone else is out, so I soldier on.

I cannot remember the last time it rained for this long here.

Aims, I think your coworkers lost the moral high-ground in that conversation first.

Attacking the size of one's anything (aside from boobs when said in a flirty, eyebrow-waggle sort of way) is NOT something I do. Ever. But I wasn't even speaking to her, and quite frankly, I'm tired of her bullshit remarks as she walks by anyone. "Whose lunch stinks?" "What are you *wearing*?" "[insert various insulting crap that she feels like spewing]".

"SAmmmm.....BOOOOOOOO....ca!" (with the added benefit of being flammable!)

You are a dangerous and wonderful person to know, SH. (Fire pretty)

Aims, I think your coworkers lost the moral high-ground in that conversation first.

They did. Not that either was really an awesome thing to say but I'd just suck it up, apologize and move right on if that is possible.

I hate that kind of attitude. And it's so transparent. It's that mean girl, "I'm going to keep you on shaky ground so I feel more stable" crap.

Well, her boss turned it into a funny, parrying-banter type thing when BossLady stood up and yelled, "OH SNAP!" and started laughing. Then co-worker started laughing, and me and the person I was helping started laughing and then co-worker came over, lifted the back of her shirt and said, "I have NO ASS! I wish it were big!" and it was fine, but fuck I wish I could control my mouth sometimes. And I also wish I felt worse about it than I do, because it was a sucky thing to say and two wrongs don't make a right, but dammit, I have the right to not have something I have no control over not be insulted, too.

I'm really not trying to be right in this, or even justified really, but dammit, I'm human and sometimes, I just want to say rude shit back to people who say rude things first.

I agree you shouldn't have said it but you were still totally justified.

I also think you should have some SAmmmm.....BOOOOOOOO....ca!"