Scenes From an Office

by Karyn Huntting Peters

(actual words heard from my cube the morning of Wednesday, 10 Jun 02)

don't want to irritate your butt, you know.
good. shows a little intestinal fortitude.
you stumble over it and can't find it. i know where it's at now.
but on the flip side of the coin, if they want their money...
why do you always have that look on your face?
what? what? is there some problem?
we're looking at, uh... that's where you come in.
that tells me that portland district is giving everyone the runaround.
they want to know where you got that number.
do you think this gum would stick in your hair if i threw it at you?
i'm not sure what all this money is for.
it's just one of those things.
we're spending a bunch on that ani-terrorism thing.
ruben, all we hear is your keyboard this morning.
if there's ever a time when there aren't actually any envelopes, they're not even required.
want go on a break, mike?
i'm going to go get some water now.
call me sherri. it's really cheryl.
how long ago did you give me that?
i think jerry used to keep a fully-stocked bar in his credenza.
what is the emergency evacuation plan i keep hearing about?
you're sending a government order to where?
i hear you can get this from paper to an electronic file. is that true?
this is not my fax. this is her fax.
didn't you work on that seismic engineering thing?
and here i thought you were so erudite and worldly.
my focus here is to kind of give you an overview on one of our performance indicators.
is there any coffee left in the coffee pot?
i just don't want to have to go to larry for it.
so i just said that this is the start of a new program that's got to last for seven years.
why do you keep walking back and forth like that?
i have a bunch of custom orders i need you to financially approve.
it's so quiet without carol here.
so it would be a hydropower thing, obviously.
walter's girlfriend went back to germany--that's why he's not yawning so much.
i put a copy of that permanent order on your chair.
so that's your justification?
yeah, it was me. you got a problem with that?
i am so totally not motivated.
mine hasn't done anything in two months.