Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Spotted

The newest member of our team reported for duty on Monday with the world's largest spot right between the eyes. It was so impressively enormous (we are talking the size of a 50p piece), I actually wondered at first whether it was a cut or a bruise and spent most of the morning trying desperately not to talk to it while I drew my own conclusions.

Hopefully, because of its location, I still looked like I was making eye contact.

We all studiously ignored it. All of us except one. This particular lady seems to have absolutely no editor between her internal monologue and her vocal chords.

'Oh, look at that giant zit on your face!' she chirped innocently as she walked in, three days later. You could have heard a pin drop. Everybody suddenly found some very serious work to do and all heads were bowed in front of computers. She didn't bat an eyelid.

Actually though it was the best thing she could possibly have done, because now it's all out in the open and we've been laughing about it ever since.

It was certainly a better outcome than her last attempt at this sort of thing. 'You do have a big belly!' she smiled as she walked past one of our slightly larger reporters. That didn't go down so well.

I guess a spot disappears rather more quickly than a substantive gut.

5 comments:

almostwitty.com said...

Is she Northern?

zuzula said...

actually no! but that's an interesting point...

Grace said...

Lols! Thats tooooo funny!

zuzula said...

:) x

Peas on Toast said...

'Oh, look at that giant zit on your face!'I just channeled coffee through my nasal passages. That's fucken PRICELESS.