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Working Amongst Cat Haters

January 15th 2008 21:00
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“I hate cats,” says my workmate Jeff. “They just sit there and do nothing. You can’t play fetch with them like you can with a dog. They’re just boring.” If I make “cat noises” (as my workmates call miaowing) Jeff will go, ‘Shut…up…” or “Stop making cat noises” while Nim will say, “Shut up, kitty.”


Another time, we were thinking up other words which KFC could stand for.

“Kentucky Fried Cat,” said Kathryn, another workmate.

“Kill F*cken Cats,” said Nim.

One afternoon I was talking to another colleague, Catherine (we have many of them in our office) and she asked me, “Is there a cat in the office?” I found it funny she chose to ask me, of all people.

“No, why?” I asked.

“One day I heard some miaowing and it was coming from your side of the office.”

“Why are you asking me and not someone else?” I asked, wondering if it was a coincidence.

“Because I know you like cats and thought you might know.”

“Oh,” I said. “That was me. Every time Jeff or Nim burps I make cat noises to annoy them.” That was my strategy to stop them burping. It actually worked!

“This place used to be fun,” complained one of the boys one day.

“What do you mean?” I asked. I had worked in many stuffy offices and to be in an office where people did Kermit the Frog impersonations, burped and made animal noises certainly was, to me anyway, fun and lively. Management didn’t seem to have a problem with it, as long as we didn’t do it all day long and weren’t doing it to be malicious.


Nothing could prepare me for what he was about to say next: “Before you came, we had some other guys here. They used to sit in the corner and have farting contests.”
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Comment by Cibbuano

January 16th 2008 01:48
What was the prize for the winner of the fart contest?


Comment by katyzzz

January 16th 2008 10:09
That worker has part of his brain missing, shame, no amount of brain exercise can fix what isn't there.

Comment by Queenie

January 16th 2008 21:01
I think there was no prize for the farting contest but what I'd like to know was how they could fart on cue!

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