Pity and Amusement

[shanmonster]

So last night this guy calls me up and he's panicstricken. He's stranded at the airport, and desperately needs a place to say. He's so worked up that I expect him to fall to the floor kicking and flailing, and he's lost all composure. I talk calmly, trying to get him to relax, explaining that yes, I can certainly get him a room. But in the midst of my talking he suddenly says, "I don't have time for this. I'm going to sleep on the floor!" And then he hangs up on me.

What a weirdo!

In other news, there's a food thief at work. Someone stole part of my lunch. I'm not impressed. I'm really broke, and food costs money. And it's not like they couldn't have taken something else. There's actually a drawer of communal food, so why did this nasty person have to take my coffee yoghourt? Grr. Argh. Now I know to carry everything in my purse, even refrigeratables.

Anyhow, I'm off for a walk now with a flock of Russians....

Comments

[myrrmyrr.livejournal.com]

I've had people steal my food at work too, not cool, since I'm diabetic!
I bought a bowl of ginger-squash soup with a dollop of cream, and when I opened the lid, 3/4 was gone, and I could see FINGER-prints on the bowl and through the cream!
As for freaks on the phone...I'd have a guy from the Philippines phone in to as to smell my sox...yes SOX...and he had the slimey-whimpy-nasaly voice...*shudders*

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

Yuck! I hate food-stealers! Maybe you
should simply keep a cooler by your
desk, and explain the problem when
your manager asks you why it's there.

Even worse, I hate the people who leave
their food in the fridge for all time,
making the office girl periodically
clean out their nasty fuzzy concoctions.

[stopityou.livejournal.com]

I have a suggestion for the thief at work: Get something cheap, like a no-bake cheesecake, or cheap muffin mix, and mix a lot of laxative into it. You'll know who did it (I just hope you don't have to share a restroom), and if you get caught, then just say you've had a few stomach problems, and it wasn't your fault the person stole it. Not only do you catch a thief, you get to humiliate one as well.

[ex-digitalis869.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted to do this. Food thieves really piss me off.

[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

alternative to purse carrying:

get a zipper bag and use a luggage lock on the zipper.

[miraba.livejournal.com]

Did you put your name on it before it went into the fridge?

[myrrmyrr.livejournal.com]

I have often thot of getting a carton of apple juice, and replacing it with something else enirely different>>>

[snowy-kathryn.livejournal.com]

I haven't had that problem at work, but some of my teammates have. I don't get food stealing. That's just...really weird. If it makes you feel any better, I had someone tear me a new one yesterday.

Her: (two minutes into the CAR reservation) When has it ever been that someone needs a credit card to fly on an airplane!!!??
Me: Um....this is Avis. I'm trying to rent you a car.
Her: Oh my God!

[pivyca.livejournal.com]

Write your name on your food inr eally big letters. This is practially policy at my work. That usually elimtates food stealing (obvious that you're eating stolen food) and cuts down the cleaning nasty-fuzzy-stuff out of the fridge that's been in there for a year.

[kamomil.livejournal.com]

I lived with two roommates, and I could have sworn one of them was eating my cereal. One didn't have a lot of money, the other was difficult, so I didn't want to get into it with either one about it. So I started making plain minute rice in the microwave for my breakfast. I like it, no one else does, and the plainness of the rice was compensated for by the satisfaction of knowing someone else had to buy their own breakfast and not mooch off of mine.

[bloobert.livejournal.com]

I like the laxative idea.

[kamomil.livejournal.com]

One time a neighbor got angry that the neighbor's dog was pooping on their lawn, so for revenge, they fed the dog ex lax so that it would go home and poop in the house.