Sit down and shut up

My thoughts on the things I know best: working in restaurants, being hospitalized and my life in general

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Cassie: Yeah, I’m going to a dinner at the French Embasity.

Me: You mean Embassy?

Cassie: Yeah, whatever.  

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Introducing coworkers Cassie and Will.  These two moved into my room recently and Cassie has been providing a dearth of quotable moments.  Cassie was also the source of yesterday’s quote.

Cassie: These stupid people wrote that they wanted Pot-able water instead of portable water.

Will: Potable water means that it is safe for human consumption.  They are asking for drinking water.  

Cassie: Oh, are you sure they don’t just want water that can be carried around?

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Coworker*talking about her boyfriend*: Yeah, he’s from Idaho.

Me: Oh really? 

Coworker: Yeah, he said he really liked growing up in Chicago.

Me: So he moved from one to the other?

Coworker: No, he grew up in Chicago, Idaho.

Me: *shows her Idaho and Chicago on a map*

Coworker: Ohhh, I didn’t realize that Idaho and Illinois weren’t the same place.  

Me: *Stares*

Coworker: Don’t give me that look, they both start with I.  

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*Coworker comes in and notices one of my desk plants is drying out*

Coworker: How are your plants doing?

Me: Not so hot, the one that I water all the time seems to be drying out and the one that I ignore seems to be thriving.  But then, I once killed a cactus, so I’m officially less nurturing that a desert.

Coworker: You mean you over-watered it?

Me: No, it dried out.  Like I said, less nurturing than a desert.

*Coworker looks confused and then leaves*

Awesome Coworker Quote of the Day

*I’m dressed in all black and she’s wearing spring colors*

Me: I feel so morbid today, like Morticia Adams

Coworker: Well it’s Wednesday, so that works out.  

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*note, we work in Vienna, VA

Random coworker *gets off the phone*: that person sounded really confused when I told them our office was in Vienna.

Rachel: Did they think we worked in Vienna, Italy?

Me: Pretty sure Vienna is in Austria.

Rachel: No, actually I think it’s in Germany.

Me: Rachel, look it up, Vienna is in Austria.

Rachel: no, no, it’s in Germany.

Me *reading from wikipedia* “Vienna is the Capitol and largest city in Austria.”

Rachel: oh, I thought it was in Germany.

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Rachel: What is a hipster? *googles a definition and reads aloud*  I don’t understand this hipster thing, but I don’t like it.  

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It’s BACK!  After a break because I no longer sat with Rachel and thus could not mine her unintentional comedy gold, they moved us back into the same proximity!!  

Coworker: I wish they would give us standing desks

Rachel: What’s a standing desk?

Cowoker [clearly trying to find a polite way to answer that question]: A desk where you… stand