Monday, November 22, 2004

Boxes

* Okay!
* Okay.
* So?
* Well, I need six of these boxes down on the fourth floor.
* But?
* I guess we could try to carry three each, or make two trips....
* Yeah, but?
* Yeah, maybe we could find a dolly....
* Heh - you didn’t bring me up here to tell me that.
* Yeah, no, I guess I didn’t… I guess I could do this myself with a dolly....
* No, I mean - What were you going to tell me?
* I don’t know… maybe I’ll still need some help if I can’t find that dolly.... or....
* Yeah?
* ...if they don’t let me use it....
* Brad, what were you going to tell me?
* I don’t know what you’re talking about.
* You were in that meeting, right?  That’s been going on, like, all day?
* Well yeah, sure.
* And you come out and come up to me all quiet and sneaky to ask me to come with you up here to get something?
* Yeah… well, no, I don’t think I was being sneaky....
* You weren’t being sneaky?  You were totally being sneaky, all low-key and speaking softly and all. 
* Alan, I’ve been in a meeting on marking projection strategies for the past 4-1/2 hours.  I wasn’t being sneaky, I’m freaking brain dead.  I just needed help getting this cardstock to the printshop and you were handy.  There’s nothing… um....
* Sneaky?
* Yeah, sneaky about it.  There’s nothing sneaky about it. 
* So this isn’t about sharing some kind of huge secret just with me?
* No… this is about getting some cardstock to the printshop.
* Yeah okay… I don’t think so.  You keep that kind of secret from me, you can just move your own friggin’ card stock.
* There is no secret.
* Like fun there isn’t.
* What, you want me to make something up?
* Yes.  Yes.  That would be preferable.
* Okay.  I’m being fired, but then rehired immediately as a contractor on payroll. 
* That’s better.  Okay, I can totally carry three of these.  Where to?