roll with the punches

[the_siobhan]

I told my co-worker this morning that one of the things I really like about this department is the plethora of seriously cranky characters. In the old job I always felt that I had to be blowing sunshine out my ass all the time and that gets exhausting.

I was talking to one of the supervisors about something, and I told him it seemed like he was having a rough day. This is what he said to me.

"I live on the third floor of a house and my entrance is on the top of the fire escape. And every day when I come home I see that a raccoon has taken another steaming dump outside the door on the second floor, and I think to myself, 'Thank God I'm not the one who has to clean that up.' And you know what? That's the best thing that happens to me all day."

I howled so hard I had to sit down.

I do love the cranky ones. They are my people.

Comments

[metaphortunate]

That's fucking hilarious. :D

[greylock]

I know my day will suck when I (in the dark) step in cat shit or spew (on brown floorboards).

So, there's that.