Being told off as an adultWhen was the last time you were properly told off? You know: treated as an errant child rather than the sophisticated adult you are.
The sort of thing that dredges up an involuntary teenage mumble of "Sorry, Miss" whilst you stare at the ground.
Go on, tell us what childish thing you were up to when you got caught.
Oh, and can we have more than one-line answers this time? Cheers!
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chthonic, Thu 20 Sep 2007, 17:18)
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I was told this story at work last night...about our "Health and Safety Manager" (a job that exists solely to suck as much joy out of life as possible). Anyway, Bill, as we shall call him as that's his name, has a morbid fear of non-existent bacteria (he circulated a memo recently forbidding the eating of biscuits at our desks as it "left bacteria for the next person to sit at the desk" - personally, I've never heard of anyone contracting any form of infection by sitting at a desk at which someone has previously eaten a biscuit).
Anyway, on the day in question Bill had been in a particularly Obsessive Compulsive humour and had been ranting about greasey finger prints on one particular desk (there weren't any). No one was paying him any attention. He spotted a small scrap of paper near the floor and that sent him over the edge.
He strode across the office, picked it up and, red faced with bulging eyes yelled "WHOSE IS THIS!?!" (yes, he said it in capitals too). No one replied. He repeated himself, sounding more and more like Basil Fawltey. Eventually he calmed down enough to spot one of the girls, a small inoffencive creature by nature, giggling to herself. He strode up to her and yelled "IS THIS YOURS!?" (again, in capitals). In her defence, she did try to keep a straight face, but just couldn't help laughing.
Marvellous.
(, Sun 23 Sep 2007, 15:19, Reply)
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