December 03, 2003
loser blue
So there's something here at work that's creeping me out a little. It's a place actually - right outside the men's room on our floor is another door ... another door to another universe apparently. I see it open maybe once a year, and when I do I always marvel, because behind that door is one really long-ass hallway. Like hundreds of feet long. Apparently it goes under several buildings and lawns and whatnot. Who knows where it ends. And it's got that dripping sound - you know, the one that they always have in the movies in caves and stuff that are filled with monsters? That dripping sound.
Something else that's creeping me out at the moment - on the doors to our building someone has posted a party sign, announcing a party "for all the old timers." Now I ask you, would you want to go to that? Besides the fact that it sounds like they're going to get together and play checkers and dance the hootchie cootchie really slowly, who's going to identify themself as an old timer and want to go? Isn't that some kind of self-defeating thought?
Maybe they're really going to stuff them all at the end of the long hallway.
Life is full of these little dilemmas - and here's another one. One constant discussion between the boss and myself is that she's always HOT and I'm always COLD. Now that it's "winter" here in SoCal (i.e. temps in the 50s), this little discussion comes up every day after work when I go to pick her up. Because naturally I'm freezing and the first thing she does is turn on the cold air and open her window. (freak)
So here's the dilemma - usually on the way over I have to turn on the defroster (it's moist by the coast) and I will make sure of course that it's blowing warm air. By the time I get to her parking lot the car is the perfect temp - not too hot and not too cold. So what do I do? I know that the she's going to get in and be too hot, and immediately turn the dial down to the cold setting. So what, you ask? Well, the thing is, my first instinct is to turn the dial down before she gets in, not all the way but maybe halfway, in the hope that she won't actually change it. 'Cause if I move it all the way to cold, she's going to think that the truck ambient temp is just naturally too hot and open her window, letting in all the cold air. But if she sees that the temp dial can be turned down a little maybe she won't open the window and freeze the to death.
But where's the line? How far down can I turn the air so that she won't touch it but also won't open the window??
Ah. I'm doomed no matter what I do.
Poop!
Posted by minor at December 3, 2003 07:02 PM