An excerpt from chatting with my boss today. My thoughts are in italics.
<M> talk to me scott
Hmm… What does he want to talk about?
<scott> what about?
<M> anything..
<M> anna wants to hear the wizard talk
Anna? Wizard? Is he making some kind of Wizard of Oz reference? Well, Whatever…
<scott> Well, you see Mogenns, when a man loves a woman very much….
<M> she is 6
FUCK! Anna his DAUGHTER! And I just made a sexual joke! SHIT SHIT SHIT make a joke… try to play it off… maybe he’s not mad…
<scott> whoops did I just make a bad joke in front of a child?
<scott> *sigh* this is why they don’t let me out in public.
He laughed at that, but he also left the chat room quickly. I’m not fired or anything, but god only know what my boss thinks of me now. I’m an idiot.
Are you censoring what you actually said, here? Because it doesn’t sound that bad.
what’s the rest of the story daddy?
uh, when a man loves a woman… he… uh… showers her with material goods!
Excellent! Buy me candy
damn you Vandehey!
When she’s 16 she’ll demand he buy her a car to prove his love. Good work, Scott.
No, that’s uncensored… It’s just that “when a man loves a woman very much” is obviously (to an adult) a reference to sex… and I did NOT intend to make a sex joke around his 6 year old daughter… Truthfully, it’s not that big a deal (Mogenns has laughed it off), but it made me feel like an ass.
“When a man loves a woman very much …” is not an obvious sexual reference. You’re being paranoid … perhaps about what how you intended to finish the sentence.But, what you actually said could go off in many directions, all of them perfectly acceptable in polite company.For example: “When a man loves a woman very much he begins to think about wanting to spend time with her … even of marriage.”Now, if I was being paranoid, I’d start worrying that you’d take my last phrase as an oblique hint or a slam. But, I know you well enough to know that I’m not worried.And, you know me well enough to know that it WAS a hint … nothing oblique about it … B-)
it’s not your fault he was being subtle. the wizard? the hell?
yeah..I would have just finished it with “he buys her ice cream…” :) mmm….ice cream…
you’re just jealous because Scott has magical powers and you don’t. ;)
DQ extreme chocolate blizzard. ;) Yummy.
Yeah, when did you gain the nickname ‘Wizard’?
I didn’t! hahaha… I think M was just kidding around, because he’s never called me that before, and while Steve and I have been doing fantastic work lately, it’s not the kind of work that would be called “magical.”
My nickname at work is “Qwest-boy.” The Dex in the office has a photo on the back that looks like me.
Do they point and laugh? Ahhh… I remember the good old days of pointing and laughing at urn… :)
The closer I get to reaching fatherhood, the better I feel that I’m slowly turning into my dad.And his father.And his father.And generations of Vandehey men before them.All of whom, as near as I can tell, rejoiced when their life hit its prime: the point that they could be referred to as an “old fart”. Personally, I’m going to amend that to “cranky, asocial novelist”.
My boss is in his late thirties.He keeps making note of the fact that I’m closer in age to his 12-year-old daughter than to him.
i’m guessing that you’re 23.5 years old.
or under.
Hey! Shut up. :)
close. I turn 21 in about two weeks.