Couple things from today at work...
From experience in high school up until, oh, probably this morning, I have become something of an expert in awkwardness. Awkward clothes. Awkward conversations. Awkward baseball slides into third base. Awkward situations with the opposite sex.
You name an awkward situation and not only have I probably experienced it, but I've also probably made it more awkward (awkwarder?).
Today, in light of these wonderful economic times, I have something new to add to the list: The run-in with a former colleague who, after being laid off by your company, is serving you coffee in order to pay the bills.
The conversation goes something like this:
Person with job: Oh...hi! Nice to see you.
Person serving coffee: You too!
Person with job: So....what's new? Working here eh?
Person serving coffee: ...yep....sort of a career change.
Person with job (over enthusiastic): Well that's just great!
Person serving coffee: Yeah...take your fucking change.
On another note, I learned this week – by virtue of my boss telling us about his son's Grade 4 science experiment – that when you take mint-flavoured Mentos and drop them into Diet Coke, it creates a geyser of cola that often ends up shooting up and hitting a fellow student square in the face, knocking his glasses off and soaking him from the waist up.
Apparently it has to be the mint-flavoured Mentos and not the fruit ones, and it has to be Mentos, not some other kind of mints. Also, regular Coke does not work – must be the Aspertame or something (which is reassuring for those of us who drink the stuff).
Armed with this knowledge, I (obviously) went out this afternoon and purchased a package of peppermint Mentos and would have bought Diet Coke too, had the store not been out of stock. Tomorrow, however, I will come to work prepared, and we plan on running our own experiment in the back parking lot.
Yeah, we're model employees.