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THE SHOWERS
At my work we have 2 shower cubicles so that healthy people riding/running to work can shower at the start of their shift. Some of these people have an uncanny ability to spread water from the shower cubicle, out the door, across the tiled floor and onto the little shelf where you’re supposed to put your dry clothes.
These shower cubicles are not tiny either, they’re a decent size, where to get from the actual shower recess to the little clothing shelf, you have to take maybe 3 steps. The shower is also fully enclosed with a glass swinging door (not one of those annoying plastic curtains that sticks to your bum and gives you no privacy).
I don’t know how they manage to get water everywhere like this, but it seems as though they are not content to clean only themselves, they also have a go at the floor, the walls and the roof.
(Cue my entry from stage right as I attempt to change into my work clothes in there...)
It’s not fun trying to get dressed for work on a wet floor standing in your socks and jocks!
THE IRON
We also have a communal iron and ironing board. This system works quite well, except that the dodgy iron spits black crap all over your clean shirt. It’s also very irritating when you come to use the iron and the person before you has left just enough water inside to allow the iron to heat up, but nothing left to actually iron with.
The other day I encountered one of the people I presume is responsible for leaving the iron empty: I’d finished ironing and saw the water storage part was near empty. So I took the little filling up cup provided, walked the 10 steps to the nearby sink and filled the cup which I then used to fill the iron.
There was a guy who had been waiting behind me to use the iron and he said
“Hang on, haven’t you finished ironing?”
I told him that I had and he was free to use it.
“So why are you filling up the iron if you’re done with it?”
“Because I know how annoying it is to be greeting with an empty iron,” I said with a phony smile.
He couldn’t get over the fact that even though I was not going to benefit from filling the iron up, I still thought to fill it for him, like it was a revolutionary way of thinking or something. Perhaps I should be made supreme chief common-sense and niceties consultant of the free office world...
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Posted by kaos264 on 2007-12-03 18:17:03 | Rating: | Views: 111
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I know when I venture out of the shower, I like to shake like a dog & get water everywhere...maybe that's what these people are doing. ;)
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Posted by Mandie142
on 2007-12-03 18:58:49
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