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August 22, 2006
Well, Thanks for Putting it Back in the Baggy, Anyway
One day last week I returned to the refrigerator at 11:30 to retrieve my lunch, and I found this:
My first thought was, "Hah! It looks like we have huge mice. That's funny."
Then I figured out that someone had taken one enormous bite out of my sandwich, realized that it was not their own, put it back in the baggy, and replaced it in the refrigerator as though nothing had happened. No note which said, "Whoops, sorry about that, let me buy you lunch." Or even, "I took someone's sandwich, and left mine for them instead. Sorry about that." Hell, I would have settled for, "Dear whomever -- took massive bite from your sandwich by mistake. Sorry."
But I got nothing. No note, no email to the fifteen people in the office hoping to make amends, and worst of all nothing to eat for lunch that day.
I felt so bad for myself that I treated me to an Indian buffet.
But I still wonder -- who is this person? Who among my coworkers is callous enough to discover his (her?) own mistake and think, "This isn't mine! But, now that it's ruined, I guess I will also eat my own sandwich. Sucks for this guy." I probably help this person solve technical issues every day, thinking that we are comrades. But this is obviously a farcical pretention on the part of the traitor.
Also: The pictures of Maine are back up. They've been down for a while, because I'm lazy about keeping MySQL+Apache running on the box in my bedroom. But now I've moved the gallery program to tonguebutnodoor's new host, so it should be pretty stable.
Posted by todd at August 22, 2006 1:14 PM
Comments
This story made me laugh, but then I felt bad for you. It's one of those, wow, this would be really funny if it hadn't happened to me... like... if it had happened on Seinfeld. In fact, isn't there a friends episode in which Ross's sandwich gets eaten and he has a rage attack?? You should get all angry on their asses...
Posted by: Erin at August 22, 2006 9:59 PM
awwww... you should send a link to your blog to 15 people right now.
ps farcical
Posted by: Jurvis at August 22, 2006 11:09 PM
I think I was more incredulous than angry. I'm not a very angry person. Plus, it was an excuse to have Indian buffet, which is always a Good Thing.
Thanks for the catch, Jurvis. I thought that looked funny, but couldn't decide why.
Posted by: todd. at August 23, 2006 9:40 AM
I ate your sandwich, you;re fired.
Ps - those first two pics of you in maine (the headshots) have great constrast when viewed side by side on teh preview page, awesome.
Posted by: greg bentley at August 23, 2006 12:50 PM
Are you telling me you didn't eat your sandwich just because someone else took a bite? I mean, not that I can't understand using this as an excuse to go Indian.
p.s. buffet, not like the millionaire
Posted by: tony at August 23, 2006 1:13 PM
Dude, did you see the size of that bite? If I had eaten around it I would have starved to death by 3pm.
Posted by: todd. at August 23, 2006 2:15 PM
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