Interesting situations

February 16, 2008 11:22 PM

This is a bit of a long story, but it's just one of those cases of bad timing that has to be shared.

John, Jen, Charlie, Chad, and I were running around Knoxville today. We stopped at Borders in Turkey Creek, and I ran into Anthony, the system admin at the company I used to work for. We stood around talking and catching up, and the rest of the crew got bored. So bored, in fact, that Chad and Charlie were ogling a book on sex. With photos. For lesbians.

As we left Borders, this led to a very interesting discussion about how the book was trying to be all artsy and serious, which was really hard to do with that subject. John announced that if he were to create such a book, he would write it from the perspective of an 8th grade boy. (I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader what this says about John's mental age.)

The book, he said, would be called "Women Doin' It." Not "doing," he clarified, but "doin'."

Right at that moment, a man I recognized from the office walked out of World Market and passed by us. Not exactly a coworker in my immediate area, but I've had to work with him before a couple of times.

All I could manage to say was, "That is just wrong, guys." Which, to be fair, I was really thinking, and probably would have said anyway.

Jen said he looked sort of amused as he passed by, so I'm not so worried. It's not like worse things haven't been said around the office.

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