workaday Wednesday

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I have a coworker with a habit of disagreeing with everything, and it brings me immense joy when I can completely baffle them (speechless being typically the closest thing to consensus we ever reach) with some statement about my life.

Last week it was “I eat breakfast sitting on the floor,” which makes perfect sense in the context of my life, but was apparently inconceivable to them. (It’s great cat bonding time! I’m just eating a bar!)

This week it was when we (somehow?!) got talking about the 5 cent bottle refund in Maine. And I said I didn’t know much about it, because I don’t buy anything that comes in a refundable can or a bottle (which I think is just beverages, like soda and bottled water and stuff?).

Speechless. Finally I got a “Really?” (Really. I’m not sure what it was they imagined I was purchasing, but I am not.) Sometimes work is one of those ‘it’s going to be either laughing or crying: pick one’ experiences, and moments like this help me come down on the laughing side.