So on Friday we had a staff meeting, which means all the administrative staff at the Wright get together and have cake. Well, and we also discussed the new Diversity Committee.
But that's not really what I am writing about...do you ever find yourself just blurting something out that is maybe a little inappropriate? And then afterwards, you are not quite sure how inappropriate it was, or if anyone even noticed? And then you think you are a complete troll, unfit for normal human society?
So there has been some sort of kerfluffle about Richard Gere smooching a Bollywood queen or something...and the Wright librarian brings up the subject as we're all sitting around and waiting for the meeting to begin. And I swear it just slipped out...I just blurted something about why would the Bollywood peeps be upset, at least there were no gerbils involved...
And we moved on to other subjects, and I forgot all about it until the weekend, and then I started to worry that my co-workers were horribly offended that I mentioned the gerbil thing...even though they probably don't know about the gerbil thing (or does everyone know about the gerbil thing?)
I mean, it's not as though I described the gerbil thing at the staff meeting...
BTW, I do not think it's true. A person would have to be truly reprehensible to do that to a gerbil, and I don't think Richard Gere is reprehensible (though admittedly I don't know him all that well.)
Spent Monday morning in agony thinking I would get fired for saying gerbil. Got uptight. Then got over it. Love Mondays.
4 comments:
I think everyone knows about the gerbil thing, and bringing it up sounds so normal that no one really even noticed. If there is any sort of scandal involving Richard Gere, gerbils are almost guaranteed to come up. By the way, I think kerfluffle is a great word. One time at a staff meeting at work I blurted out that I hate when people wear "gross" perfumes (meaning synthetic chemical perfumes that make me gag) - that caused a little kerfluffle, too.
I hate it when people wear gross perfume too! But I think you knew that. Was someone in the room wearing perfume? Good for you for starting the kerfluffle.
I told my therapist about the gerbil thing and she had this blank look on her face--she didn't know about the Gere-gerbil connection...so then there was this segue into the logistical aspects of gerbilling and I got grossed out and had to change the subject.
On a completely separate note: the gerbil in the photo is totally cute. And I mean that in an entirely platonic way.
Thank you, I try to borrow-without-explicit-permission the cutest possible pictures from the interweb.
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