Goofus.

There are two sides to every story.

Mena: Excuse me, Ben. When you have a moment, could you direct your attention to my half of the room?

Ben: (Silence)

Mena: No hurry, dear.

Ben: (Silence)

Mena: Ben?

Ben: (Silence)

Mena: Here's my question: What are the technical limitations behind why we can't have an exclude category in MTEntries?

Ben: Would you shut-up? I'm trying to kill all these processes and I don't have time for you.

Mena: I'm sorry for bothering you. But, I do not think I merited that response.

Ben: Argh! You're so infuriating!

I walk over to Ben's desk and put my hand on his shoulder.

Mena: Okay, I have a solution. We'll draw an imaginary line. And, for a certain amount of time, neither of us will disturb each other. How does that sound?

Ben: Stupid fool.

Mena: You know I have an inferiority complex. Comments like that really hurt.

Ben: (Silence)

Mena: (Silence)

Ben: (Silence)

Mena: Hey Ben, look at this! Simplicity now makes a male pilgrim costume pattern.

Comments

[kismet]

the funniest part is picturing Ben all pilgrimed out. ;)

[Paul]

Who gets the side of the room with bathroom access? Kitchen? I think those might be worth a pilgrim costume.

[Jeff]

And what about your new couch?!

[resonance]

Parallel blogs, parallel universes.

[jenn]

eek.

And I thought the huffy, 'can't you see I'm in the middle of reading this book for the second time? leave me alone...' sigh was bad enough...

[denise]

that male pilgrim costume sounds like a threat.

[Anil]

You kids are too amusing, I just want to hug you to pieces. And what your recounting of the dialogue lacked in accuracy, it more than made up for in passive-aggressive impugning of Ben. :)

[megami]

God, that is the funniest thing I've read all day! The "stupid fool" part just abut killed me! Who even says that?

[cybertoad]

LOL! I had to forward that to my husband since it was a story we are too familiar with! :D We have our own offices now in the new house so hopefully we can avoid any future re-enactments!

[meryl]

Thanks for the laugh of the day! To return the favor, here's the costume I made for Ben and he tried it on. Perfect fit.

[Dinah]

Aaahh! Meryl that picture of Ben is too funny. I think maybe hasn't earned that much torture yet...

[Mena]

Oh, Meryl -- that's too cruel :)

Here's the pilgrim costume in question:

[lynn]

the enormous white bib collar says it all....pure i tan

[Broad]

I is now your constituency fa shore.

[Shetha]

OMG -- do not bother a man who is at a computer. Everyone knows men only run on a single-thread processor! ;-)

[-M.]

ROTFLOL!

so that's why it's stupidfool.org!

grin :)