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People are strange.
I had a technical problem with my computer earlier. It put me in a sort of communication paradox for a moment. A colleague started to ask me for something in the midst of a temporary moment where I needed to concentrate to resolve this glitch so I said "Hang on, give me a second, I'm in the middle of a technical problem and then I can talk".
She then asked "What is the problem?" and promptly stood up, picked up her chair, and walked round to my side of my desk, looking frowny and concerned in that "Let me join in and help you" way - totally uneccessary, but that's people I guess. So she sat there and said "What's the problem, maybe I can help" ... it was a very complex problem, but very minor. Just to do with Wordpress not doing something, and my email going out of action at a point where I needed to email the webby bloke to ask about it, and I couldn't log on to my web-based email thing as a work-around because the cleaner had kindly thrown away my log-in details post-it note blah blah blah (there's more to it than this I'm just saving myself the trouble of typing it and you from reading it)... just one of those little, irritating crunchy nuggets of disability that takes a few minutes of focussing to get past. So I said "Its okay, I just need to..." interjection: "No but tell me, because I might be able to help"... "Well, not really because"...interjection "No. Try me, seriously"
Right, okay. So I decide the best way to deal with this will be to explain to her the full extent of my temporary glitch... which will take me much much longer than it would take me to just fix the glitch if she fucked off back to her desk and let me concentrate for a minute, but that's life I guess.
So I start to walk her steadily through the tangled knot of inconsequential coincident technical snags that had converged on that particular minute, and I get midway through it and she interjects again and says "Hey, okay, OKAY... look at me... LOOK AT ME" like I'm having some kind of hysterical uncontrollable outburst. So I look at her, somewhat perplexed, and she takes my hand (TAKES MY FUCKING HAND I SWEAR TO GOD) and she peers into my eyes, and she says "Its okay, you just need to calm down. ITS OKAY. I DON'T WANT YOU TO WORRY ABOUT MY QUESTION. ITS FINE. I CAN LOOK FOR THE FILES I NEED. JUST RELAX. ITS OKAY"
I'm sat there, totally relaxed, with my hand ensconced in her tender embrace, absolutely non-plussed, and I say "I'm fine. You got up, picked up your chair, and came and sat by me insisting I told you what my problem was. I'm just telling you, because you asked".
Then she repeats "ITS OKAY. LOOK AT ME. LOOK AT ME. ITS OKAY. DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME... LOOK AT ME... COME ON LOOK AT ME... ITS OKAY".
Then she gets up, picks up her chair, goes back to her desk and gets on with her work.
30 seconds later I resolve my glitch and show her where her missing files are.
People are very fucking odd.
- ITS OKAY. I DON'T WANT YOU TO WORRY ABOUT MY QUESTION. ITS FINE. I CAN LOOK FOR THE FILES I NEED. JUST RELAX. ITS OKAYhallelujah
- so, is she hot?drgs
- I can't answer that Drgs. She's not a pig, but she's not my dream date either. Some would say 'handsome'. Discuss.Horp
- how condescending! that would also bug the shit out of me and make me post the story heremonospaced
- HAHAHAHorp
- lol, i'd have nestled in her boobies and cried.********