I just walked over to Vienna Sausage Lady's area of the lab to get some things I needed for work. I heard this noise behind me, this "eeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh" that was like a fingernails on the chalkboard kind of whine, and I turned to see VSL walking towards me. "What?", I asked. She stopped and looked at me, and she made that noise again. That really irritatingly-pitched, whiny noise, that I guessed was supposed to indicate something was very wrong
"What happened?"
VSL: "I don't know. I mean, it looks like it's going to rain. But it might not rain. It's like it can't decide if it's going to rain or not. And they said there might be clouds today, but I didn't expect these kind of clouds. And this wind - this wind is weird, man. You know?"
me: "uuhh..." (trying to do work)
VSL: "It looks like it should be 30 degrees colder than it is. It's like, "oh, I'm really cold - oh no I'm not! It's 80 degrees!" I don't know, man. Is it going to rain? It's like it doesn't know what to do."
She was stressed about the weather.
If it does rain, when I leave, she's going to run after me and yell, "DON'T TRY TO GO DOWN NORTHSIDE DRIVE! IT FLOODS UNDER THAT BRIDGE!" And I will look her in the eye, and tell her that I AM going to go down Northside Drive! Ha! And then she will look stressed for me. This is how it always goes.
I ate outside today. There was a breeze. I thought, "This feels nice." Maybe I'm just a shallow thinker? Maybe, but I also think she could do with an afternoon cocktail.
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Yeah, but how would she get back to work without freaking out about a DUI? I'm afraid that kind of stress leads to a host of no-win situations.
You make a good point. One day recently I discovered that I didn't have my wallet or therefore my license at work. She didn't think I should risk the 3 mile drive home.
LOL. What do you call it when everything about life is a Catch-22?
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