On Friday I was leaving work, and I went next door to tell the African History professor to have a nice weekend.
I knocked on his door, and he said, "Yes?" Sometimes he mistakenly says, "Oui?"
I then opened the door, and he saw it was me. He then flashed me a peace sign and said, "Peace and love, man."
I replied, "Have a nice weekend."
It suddenly seemed like I had brought a ham sandwich to a banquet. This would never have happened in the corporate world. In that setting, I was the most thoughtful and sensitive guy in the place. C'est la vie.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
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Well... this is quite a pickle. Sure, niceties can seem silly in the face of percieved sincerity, but perhaps that's just what he says. What were your options? "Hang loose, Daddy-o!" "Shake it, but dooooon't break it!" "Keep on truckin!" Do you want to be that guy? I say, keep it stuffy.
You made it a point to go to someone's office to wish them a nice weekend--you could have left campus and said nothing, so I think your initiative counts for a lot. Plus, with Mike Brown and me in the band, you'll always have a shot a most considerate and sensitive member of Cumsquatch.
I'd have said "See ya tomorrow Indiana Jones!", even if he wasn't in he archeological wing.
You're just asking for someone to burn your bar down, Bud.
Mike...do you know someone who owns a bar? Why have you kept it secret all this time? I don't trust you at all anymore. Next you'll let it out that you're friends with a bunch of strippers.
As a member of the corporate world, you might be the most considerate with that gesture. But you would also be seen as a wimp. Our normal mode of operation is to see who will be the first person on Friday to suggest that we all skip work early to go get shitfaced. At the end of a hard week of pushing paper and executing conflicting coprporate strategies, you have to tie one one big time if you want to remain even remotely sane enough to come to work on Monday.
Run forward I say! Run forward and NEVER, NEVER look back!
I am in the dark. Were you insulted by his remark or were you moved by it? I think if you roughed up a few, your coworkers may respect you more. Jesus Lou, represent!
As an update to this post, we now do occasional fist-bumps, but I still can't pull it off with any grace. I'm trying to get my wife to greet me that way to keep me on my toes.
Is "Fist Bump" a sexual thing? You are completely gross.
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