Not All Hummers Are Good Hummers!

Saturday, July 28th, 2007 | Life, Rants

A week ago or so they decided that, though there was no “pre-arranged seating” in my department, that they needed to “separate the teams”. Now this was not a logical move at all because everybody pretty much enjoyed where they are sitting and we have about 1 team meeting every 3 months, which consists of BOTH teams meeting up. Anyways, our supervisor got in later than the other one (as would typically be the case). So the other sup decided that he would claim the half that I was sitting on. Despite the other supervisor having the main desk that’s on that half of the room (and still does).

Now we are all floundering to find seats everyday because not everybody has the same schedule everyday. Well one day I was forced to sit at this desk which has some old / dead guy staring at you no matter how low you slouch. I mean I either have to be disrespectful to the dead and flip him upside down or let him stare at me. Well I didn’t want that 2 days in a row.

Did the next best thing and took somebody else’s seat who is fairly territorial (as one should be when they are “batman”….) and I moved his stuff over one desk then sat there. I thought I was crafty when he came in and was like WTF and then decided to move over even one more desk because their was cooties or something on that one (and “batman” has a daily struggle with cooties to begin with, no need to make it more difficult).

Now I am all smug, I have a seat with everything except my nametag (mysteriously vanished, perhaps somebody else wants to be me… well I know a lot of people who do, but they are just creepy stalkers and don’t work at the same place i do…). Just when I think life is good, an old / living guy across from my cubicle starts humming. Now as any person would do, you figure it will go away so you just ignore it. Well what if it doesn’t go away!?

I tried to retreat into my iWhatever I was listening to at the time, but I couldn’t get this old hummer out of my mind. He hummed longer than anybody has ever hummed. I mean I know you gain a lot of experience with these things the longer you live, but DAMN, don’t you have to take a breath? !?

At a certain point I stood up and was going to say something rude, but I looked over at my friend and started laughing and then could not say anything. I mean I know it’s not good to be rude to the elderly but this hummer was just freaking me out. I mean what if I loose all appreciation for hummers in the future!?!???!

I was able to calm down knowing that this was “my Friday” and that I would not be back into work until Sunday and then I don’t think he would be there Sunday or Monday.

The moral of the story is Not All Hummers Are Good Hummers!

               

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