Thursday, November 30, 2006

chick night

I met up with The Chicks last night.
Sex, drugs and rock and roll, or the discussions thereof over some alcohol always ends off the day rather nicely.
And as it goes, we all came from work, bitching and moaning about something, whether it be the broken fax machine, the irrationally-demanding and hormonal boss, the endless pile of ever-increasing paperwork, or boredom of monolithic sanity.

So the question, How was your day, then? is always met with similar responses:
C: hard work, I so much I have to do.
N: Hectic, can our server actually crash eight times in one day?
S: Boring. I had to all but shove toothpicks between my drooping eyelids to stay awake.
Klo: I have no time for myself, my clients always want to see me after hours.
Peas: Boring, help, I need a holiday, the server crashed, the boss asked me to reload the entire website, the editor is out to destroy me and I didn’t get to eat lunch.

You know, the usual.

Then E2 piped up:
“Chinas, shut the fuck up already. You think you had a bad day?”

Turns out E2 had to run around a corporate head office, filled with auditors, merchant bankers, financial strategists and such, in a life-sized lobster outfit.

If that wasn’t enough, she had to jump around getting people excited about a new campaign, with a vuvuzela, a large stick with a crab on it (the theme was obviously an icthy-related topic), and large goggles.
For four hours.
The student hired to do this job didn’t pitch. So E2 had to step in.

You win.

After a couple of tonks and a snack basket, one suddenly got that unmistakable waft of puke that one unmistakably cannot ignore. Someone, something, had chundered within very close proximity of our table, and we were sitting downwind. The pub in which we had chosen ourselves in which to grace was more, how do we say, upmarket?, than our lovely and very-usual, if not predictable Jolly Roger Wednesdays.
Behind us, a woman, perhaps in her mid-60s, was parking a deplorable tiger into the plants just off the side of her table. It was very obviously a work function, yet, everyone sitting at her table decided to just pretend she wasn’t [very conspicuously] vomiting and carried on chatting, snacking and sipping casually on their drinks. All while this bird, dressed in power suit, heels and tight blue perm, vomayed within everyone’s midst.

It was all quite bizarre. She was obviously too smashed to walk or get walked to the safety and privacy of the ladies water closet. We offered water, but she didn’t hear us through the symptomatic sounds of rushing water that penetrated her ears, clearly.

On an entirely different note altogether, there really is something wonderful about sleeping in the arms of someone. We still toss and turn when in the same bed – I’m still not used to sharing my linen and space with someone during dos-time – but I lay there, loving that his arms were over my body, his hands entangled in mine, his soft breathing and lips in my back, and his feet touching my feet.

What a pleasure.

Off to Christmas end of year lunch...

12 comments:

Koekie said...

1) No day has lately entailed dressing up as an over-sized lobster. For this, I am grateful.
2) Drunken grannies kotching into potplants is not cool and I blame her work mates for not taking responsibility. Whatever happened to social consciousness? I ask you.
3) Enjoy Xmas lunch. You are not a granny yet, so feel free to kotch in the potplants.

Anonymous said...

mushy wushy peasy weasy!

Revolving Credit said...

E2 having to spend the day dressed up as a giant lobster - WTF?

That is just the corporate way of reinforcing the fact that you are a 'bottom feeder'.

Urk said...

somebody should have taught that cat the wonderful talent that it the VIM (vomit in mouth) - much more discreet that the VOM (vomit out mouth)

Katie Possum said...

yuck!

On the bright side - you dont work for BA and thus dont have to explain to thousands of people that they may radiation exposure for simply flying with them.

More bright side: there's some talk over here (UK) about holding bosses responsible for their staff's well being and behaviour following office parties - that's hysterical in my book.

Peas on Toast said...

hey chaps!

am boozed and am now goinf home!
byeeeeeeee!

Peas on Toast said...

ps: reread my last paragraph., im such a cheesy fuck.

Anonymous said...

Kate, its kinda happening here in SA... did you know for example that if you are caught drunken driving on the way home from an office party where your company has provided all the booze etc, they can be held liable for a fine equal to what you would be fined as well?

Champagne Heathen said...

Peas, the last paragraph is cheesy yes, but I am hoping you are not a cheesy fuck...otherwise you should go to the doc and get that checked out.

Sorry.

I'm prepping for friday blogging.

If you can type, it means you can coordinate movements, which must mean you have not been puking in the herb garden. Well done! Good achievement!

Urk said...

as long as the bosses bail you out (not included in cost to company), and the criminal record is on their name, its all good!

KaB said...

sick...that really is off-putting, esp before I plan on going big! You never know when a drinkie or two may just gel or cause some wobbly sicky feeling down under! yuk...not spiffy!

The sound of arms wrapped around me may sound cheesy but I like cheese! Why not get cheesy & enjoy it...god, you're only human! I'm like totally jealous right now!

Dan Lurie said...

OMG, you are so fucking cheesy