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12月21日 Too Many Coasters!So, I'm at work the other day, and the rep for (top secret company name) came in to see my boss, and give him some christmas bribes... i mean gifts... My boss wasn't here, but I was talking to the rep anyway, and he said to me
"I'm sorry, we don't have any coasters this year, but here's a hat... you wear it on your head"
I was a bit confused by the statement for a while, then I remembered something completely STUPID that I did around this time last year, and cracked up laughing... my company hat proudly on my head.
The (top secret company name) - lets call them SILICON MASTERS! because that's fun and nothing like their real name... were running a promotion last year, where for every like 20x tubes of silicon you get a free blue coaster-shaped piece of plastic. Due to the fact that I would estimate our monthly useage of silicon to be approximately 400 boxes, we roughly had 800 of these things arrive with each delivery.
Obviously, after the first delivery, we'd run out of cups to use the coasters for! ... so my boss got cranky and asked me to call them to say that we didn't want any more. I rang their head office and said 'PLEASE - NO MORE COASTERS!' and they said 'ok we won't send you any more promotional coasters' and that was that. Still, we recieved more and more, then one day we recieved an entire box of them that were on 'backorder'. The next time the rep came in, I gave him the box and told him that we said we didn't want any more coasters! I've spoken to them in the office at least twice and i have no use for a million-zillion coasters!! and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE - NO MORE COASTERS!!!!!!!!! (Then I hyperventilated because it's all so dramatic with all the excaliming!)
He looked at me like I was a loonatic, and said 'these aren't coasters, they are silicon spreaders'
A few days later, I recieved a coaster in the mail from the supplier. I still put my coffee on a blue 'coaster' though! :) 12月12日 Irrationality at it's greatestThe other day, I was at Matt and Will's house, and I was washing my hands. I was completely and utterly shocked to discover that they had the grossest of gross things in their bathroom- right near their bathroom sink! An almost-full OPENED bag of cotton wool.
I have demonstrated my insanity here numerous times, but doubt I have ever shared my completely and utterly irrational dislike and fear of cotton wool. I totally detest cotton wool. I don't like anything about the stuff - the texture, the feel, the look. As I write this, the hairs on my arms are standing on end, just thinking about it. The thought of pulling one in half is completely and utterly unbelievably hideous, worse still is the thought of actually touching one to my skin, or worse still - my face! As long as I can remember, I'v hated it.
After expressing my dissatisfaction to the boys for there being cotton wool in a place where I could accidentally come into contact with it - worse still, if I didn't realise it was there and brush past it accidentally, I was chased by multiple people weilding little balls of white cotton death.
It's taken me THIS LONG to even be able to relive the horror - it happened over a week ago...
Weirder still, is my uncle's fear of peaches... and velvet. I'm cool with both of those textures, but he can't cope. So much so that whenever he gets presents, people often wrap them with a velvet ribbon. (Fun for the whole family!)
The above photo (in all it's evilness) was borrowed from the istockphoto website - by their member - Scrofula. Thankfully, not many people take photos of these horrible little things, so it was kind of hard to find a good picture. The thought of taking one myself, where I would have to actually be within a metre radius of the things, and possibly even TOUCH them would have to be worse than any other experience possible. |
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