I think you communicate just fine ita. Clearly your coworkers have a listening/reading problem.
Jayne: You wanna go, little man? Wash: Only if it's someplace with candlelight.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Burrell - Dec 19, 2012 8:37:49 pm PST #5163 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Vortex - Dec 19, 2012 9:51:08 pm PST #5164 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Was planning to pack tonight, because I have a Christmas party tomorrow. I knew that I wasn't going to finish, because I just did laundry tonight, and there are some things that need to air dry, but hoped to get everything else done. No dice. However, I did finish a second batch caramels (Maria will be the Buffista proxy), sort the gifts and assorted crap I need to gather, and print out labels for the cards that I still need to write.
§ ita § - Dec 20, 2012 4:29:55 am PST #5165 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Douche in the airport. I'm seated at a power station, and he lurches up to it and dumps coffee onto my tablet. I start swearing and complaining, he starts apologising. I tell him to get me something to dry it with, he apologises. I tell him I need napkins, and he tells me he didn't mean to do it.
I DON'T CARE. YOU SPILT COFFEE ONTO MY EQUIPMENT AND I NEED TO DRY IT OFF.
But I don't have anything?
I am pretty much snarling when I point across the vast expanse of CORRIDOR to the stack labelled NAPKINS and grunt "There."
He pauses to plug his phone into my power bar and then fetches one for me.
Why are there unsupervised humans?
Jessica - Dec 20, 2012 4:48:22 am PST #5166 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I tell him I need napkins, and he tells me he didn't mean to do it.
Was he five years old? Because I have this conversation DAILY and am hoping my kid will grow out of it.
hippocampus - Dec 20, 2012 4:59:50 am PST #5167 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
and am hoping my kid will grow out of it.
laughs and laughs and laughs and laughs. and cries.
ita !, I can't even think what I would have done in your place. Public shaming? IDEK.
Strix - Dec 20, 2012 5:02:58 am PST #5168 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
The weather outside is frightful.
That is all.
SailAweigh - Dec 20, 2012 5:13:50 am PST #5169 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Cameras on the top of the Atmospheric Oceanic and Space Sciences bldg at UW-Madison: [link]
We've already had 8 inches of snow and they're predicting 7 more. Joy.
tommyrot - Dec 20, 2012 5:16:04 am PST #5170 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We're getting the blizzard starting this afternoon.
Perhaps I should have taken the train to work.
tommyrot - Dec 20, 2012 5:16:57 am PST #5171 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We've already had 8 inches of snow and they're predicting 7 more. Joy.
Wow. We're getting the edge of the storm. The rain will turn to snow at 3:00.
SailAweigh - Dec 20, 2012 5:19:25 am PST #5172 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Oh, and I finally lost the LDB contest last night. I stopped at the grocery store to pick up almonds for my cookie baking today and I found myself humming "pa-rum-pa-pa-pum" on the way out and realized I'd been earwormed. I was really hoping to make it through the season without hearing it. Not that I mind it; I mind losing.
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