Friday, September 24, 2010

Lunch Break Madness

Lunch Break Madness

I adjust my dress and wash my hands.

Then, I turn around to confirm what I thought I saw out of the corner of my eye. And it is this:

One of my colleagues carrying his lunch - on a tray - into the Gents' toilets.

It is a genuine "Wait... WHAT?" moment.

"Wait... WHAT?"

He looks at me apologetically, for there is no greater faux pas than taking a steaming bowl of soup and a vegetarian stir fry into the can with you.

"There had," I said, the disgust welling up inside me, "be a pretty good explanation for this."

And there was.

He had - it turned out - already read the newspaper during his tea break.

"You may proceed. Wash your hands."

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Adjusted your... dress?!

Sahara Desert

TRT said...

Why do you have a carton of panda milk on your tray?

And did the vegetarian stir fry come with chopsticks? If it did, I expect he just took them to the can to work something out.

Richard said...

We used to have a selection of papers where I used to work. One of the girls used to flatly refuse to even touch The Sun after mid-morning. When asked why she told us that every morning at the same time Ian H went to the bog and always took The Sun with him.

Erin said...

Ick.

Anonymous said...

I do hope your heels and purse match.

WoD

Donna said...

Maybe he was punting the food straight down the bog, cutting out the middle man.

Donna said...

Wait.....what......?

You can buy milk made from Pandas?

Debster said...

I think the word better is missing from this page.

Also - you wear a dress? And you went in the gents? I hope you sat down.

Lord Andrew of Goulding said...

@ Debster

The ducky's on his knees for a fiver!

Debster said...

Life's cheap for that type of person ...