I was in a conference room yestereve at work, participating in a social game function with a few friends. Earlier in the day, apparently there'd been a catered function in the same room; there was a bunch of salad fixings on one side of the room, but they'd been there all day, and were more than a bit, um, off. Amongst the food items was a rather large bowl of carrot shredding.
Part of the way through our game, someone complained about the smell of the salad dressing, which, I have to say, was going a bit off. So one of the folks there got up, and took the dressing out of the room, presumably to dispose of in the kitchen.
Purely on impulse, I confess I went over to the large bowl of carrot shredding, grabbed two big handfuls, and turned around to face the room. And I said,
"Alright, I can't stand it anymore. I have to confess that one of my lifelong ambitions has been to have my photo taken whilst holding handfuls of shredded carrots. Strange, I know, but I just can't sit here and hold it in anymore. Someone, please, get out a camera and take my photo. Then, I can finally mark this one of the list. Please."
The folks remaining in the room just sat there and looked at me like I was crazy. Nobody was getting out a camera to take my picture.
I looked at one of them, who I knew full well had a camera phone, and asked him specifically, to which he replied that his camera didn't work that well.
I know others there had camera phones as well.
So, rather disgusted and disappointed at all of these weirdoes who refused to take my picture whilst I was holding two big handfuls of carrot shreddings, I said, "Fine. Whatever." And rather roughly tossed the carrot shreddings back into the bowl, and sat back down where I was before.
Then the fellow who was disposing of the dressing comes back into the room. And he goes over to the bowl of shredded carrots, and grabs a handful, and starts eating them. So I exclaim with some alarm,
"Dude! I was just playing those! You don't want to be eating them."
He thought I was joking. I assured him I was not. He said whatever, apparently not believing me, and continued to eat them.
Nobody else said a thing. And I'm the weird one.
Good fortune,
- Icarus was playing with your food earlier, too...
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