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Mr. Grumpy

This one needs a little ’splainin. First off, I’ll start off by saying I had a pretty caca day today. It started with a plugged eardrum and a shot of Astelin up my nose (which I like to call ASStelin..ugh. Tastes SO bad..) and just in general, the mood was pretty low. Eventually it became time to go home from work, when I noticed someone talking on the other side of my cubicle. To themselves (FYI; on the other side of my cubicle lies the community scanner, where everyone comes to do their imaging). So here I am, staring at the computer, just waiting for the day to end when suddenly I hear: "I’m so mad." I take a quick peek over the top of my cubicle and realize its a frustrated employee trying to get the scanner to work. Ok, that happens. No biggie. A few minutes later I hear, "WHY WONT YOU WORK?!" in a progressively angrier voice. Wow, this is starting to get funny cuz that poor bastard doesn’t realize that just over the wall is my lonely cubicle and I can hear everything he’s saying. I sensed things were getting bad cuz the scanner started to make unpleasant noises and Mr. Grumpy angrily shuffled papers around. Thats when the F bomb was thrown. "FUCK—YOU" said Mr. Grumpy. At this moment I frantically searched for my camera thinking I could film this tirade, but at that moment Mr. Grumpy got up and left, leaving a mumbly trail of obscenities behind him. I only hoped he’d come back after a frustration break. And… he did. He only lasted 2 minutes though; enough for me to hear him snipe "I shouldnt have wasted all my time!!", growl (literally; there was an audible "Grrr!"), and take this picture. So thats my story. After that whole scene, my day turned out not to be so bad after all. I dedicate this song to Mr. Grumpy.

 
The Delgados: Hate Is All You Need

2 comments

March 29th, 2007

ha, it looks like you have an elevated cubicle or something. Also, I wonder what would have happened if your camera made one of those fake shutter noises and he noticed in the middle of his frustrating experience.

marnie

March 29th, 2007

Hi Jon,
i was prepared for the ‘fake shutter’ noise cuz thats indeed what my camera does. I couldnt get rid of it manually so I did the ol “cough” while snapping the photo. Dont worry; being the catastrophist that I am, I already thought of all the embarassing and potentially explosive things that might happen if the shutter sound was detected…

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