workaday... Monday?
Mar. 16th, 2026 07:32 amStill not over my absolute favorite in-office interaction last week.
THE CONTEXT:
The office has two individual bathrooms next to each other down a hallway. (It's weird, idk, they remodeled? That part doesn't matter. There are other multi-stall bathrooms in other parts of the building, but obviously NOT sharing a bathroom is better, plus they're the closest to my desk AND close to an outside door. You know, in case I want to go for a lil' walk.)
ANYWAY I walked out of the individual bathroom last week at exactly the same time TWO people were exiting the other individual bathroom right next to it. They were talking to each other. I thought nothing of this. If I had thought anything of it, I would have assumed that since both of them are at least adjacent to safety/facilities roles, probably they were checking something?
(SIDENOTE: it's freezing in that bathroom, PLEASE could someone check something?)
But THEN one of them stopped and looked at me and said, 'That wasn't what it sounded like,' and I was all '??!?!?'
MY REACTIONS, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER (I did not say any of these things):
*I have no idea what you said that 'wasn't what it sounded like,' but now I'm curious
*I wasn't listening, because I don't care
*If you wanted to get up to something in an office bathroom, you should have picked the other one; it's warmer
*I have total confidence in your ability to be better at a clandestine meetup than whatever this is
WHAT I ACTUALLY SAID (it was even true!):
*"My brain is looping Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Cut to the Feeling' at high volume right now, I didn't hear anything."
IN CONCLUSION
If return-to-office can't be useful or logical, at least it can be funny???
THE CONTEXT:
The office has two individual bathrooms next to each other down a hallway. (It's weird, idk, they remodeled? That part doesn't matter. There are other multi-stall bathrooms in other parts of the building, but obviously NOT sharing a bathroom is better, plus they're the closest to my desk AND close to an outside door. You know, in case I want to go for a lil' walk.)
ANYWAY I walked out of the individual bathroom last week at exactly the same time TWO people were exiting the other individual bathroom right next to it. They were talking to each other. I thought nothing of this. If I had thought anything of it, I would have assumed that since both of them are at least adjacent to safety/facilities roles, probably they were checking something?
(SIDENOTE: it's freezing in that bathroom, PLEASE could someone check something?)
But THEN one of them stopped and looked at me and said, 'That wasn't what it sounded like,' and I was all '??!?!?'
MY REACTIONS, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER (I did not say any of these things):
*I have no idea what you said that 'wasn't what it sounded like,' but now I'm curious
*I wasn't listening, because I don't care
*If you wanted to get up to something in an office bathroom, you should have picked the other one; it's warmer
*I have total confidence in your ability to be better at a clandestine meetup than whatever this is
WHAT I ACTUALLY SAID (it was even true!):
*"My brain is looping Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Cut to the Feeling' at high volume right now, I didn't hear anything."
IN CONCLUSION
If return-to-office can't be useful or logical, at least it can be funny???
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Date: 2026-03-16 08:49 pm (UTC)