Mister M and I trade funny snippets from our day back and forth. It helps make work go a little faster, and adds brevity to what can be a very plodding existence in cubicle-land. Recently, we've sent a string of unconscious, yet hilarious, grammar slips zipping back and forth across the wires. Who ever is monitoring my e-mails at work must be getting a chuckle.
Quote 1: one of mine
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Mandy, a co-worker with a proud-to-be redneck flair, sighs heavily.
"Everything okay over there?" I ask over the padded five-foot grey wall.
"This hold time is inconvincable!"
"Huh?" I lose track of the beat in The Girl from Ipanema.
"You know, like, outrageous. Inconvincable."
Riiiiight....
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Quote 2: one of his
"We've had a grub worm problem for the last couple weeks out on the estate," Mister M explains. "The moths see the landscaping lights in the lawn and are sucked in. They lay their eggs, then out come the worms.
"Now some sort of animal has been rooting around out back, looking for a meal. The housekeeper thinks it must be an 'Amarillo'. You know, one of 'those things they have down in Texas'."
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And the winner is...
Quote 3: one of mine
"Ug!" My boss fans herself rapidly, then starts alternately lifting and yanking down her cowl-necked sweater.
The office is noticeably over-warm. She's flushed. Her stringy, over-processed hair has gone flat. There's a light sheen on her upper lip.
"You okay?" I ask, ever the helpful employee.
"This heat!," she gasps. "I'm sweating protrusively!"
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I've decided to give out dictionaries for Christmas.
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