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LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1972
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 3:15 pm: | 
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You know when you all of the sudden notice an annoying habit of someone at work, and every time it happens, it just Grrraaattes on your nerves???????
The person who sits across from me in the cube farm drinks her water like a 5 year old (no insult to 5 year olds intended). It goes something like this.
"GULP...GULP....GULP..." and when she's done drinking I hear her lips smack together followed by an "Ahhh". I don't know if she just started drinking more water these days or what, but I didn't notice this until about two weeks ago. All day, I hear "GULP, GULP, GULP, SMACK, AHHH." "GULP, GULP, GULP, SMACK, AHHH." "GULP, GULP, GULP, SMACK, AHHH." "GULP, GULP, GULP, SMACK, AHHH." "GULP, GULP, GULP, SMACK, AHHH." "GULP, GULP, GULP, SMACK, AHHH." "GULP, GULP, GULP, SMACK, AHHH."
I'm going insane...
OK -rant over. I realize this is petty, but I need to vent. Forgive me. |
red
Citizen
Username: Redy67
Post Number: 6288
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 3:27 pm: |
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LiLB--been there. Silly things like that can just grate every last nerve; and once you notice it.....well it just gets worse! |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 8288
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 3:27 pm: |
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Next time she does it, ask her "Does that taste good? It sounds like it."
Or, the milder "that must be good." |
Joanne G
Citizen
Username: Joanne
Post Number: 327
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 4:07 pm: |
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Buy her a swirly straw??? Or a few of them? |
Wendy
Supporter
Username: Wendy
Post Number: 2711
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 4:14 pm: |
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Put some marbles in her water. |
Earlster
Supporter
Username: Earlster
Post Number: 1572
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 4:16 pm: |
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Or keep a banana handy. |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1974
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 4:26 pm: |
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Thanks all - you're giving me a good laugh. 
Looking over at her desk, I just noticed she has two cups - one with a straw and one without. Maybe every time she gets up from her desk I should steal the one without a straw. I'm assuming she won't make the same noise with the cup with a straw, but I haven't been looking over there. I'll need to check on that....
Either that or I can start focusing on the other woman in front of me who, when she drinks soda from a can (which, thankfully isn't often), she SLURPS every last bit of it before throwing the can away. You'd think there was a shortage of soda in this country or she'd been thirsty for days and didn't want to waste a drop.
Or of course, there's the other woman who sits diagonally from me who sits and clicks her fingernail with another fingernail as she thinks. Click, click, click, click, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK........
Oh dear God, I think I need to go for a walk now. I'm spiraling out of control!!! |
jet
Citizen
Username: Jet
Post Number: 1153
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 4:28 pm: |
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Those that anger you , control you. |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1976
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 4:34 pm: |
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I swear I just heard someone pass wind on the other side of my cube. This cube-a-hood is definitely going down hill.... I gotta join a different department or something. |
blackcat
Citizen
Username: Blackcat
Post Number: 656
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 4:45 pm: |
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I think it was a full moon last night..and my cow-orker clips his nails while he's on the phone...just gross... |
fabulouswalls
Citizen
Username: Fabulouswalls
Post Number: 117
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 4:48 pm: |
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Mondays suck! Don't they? |
las
Citizen
Username: Las
Post Number: 2037
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 4:48 pm: |
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eeeeeeeew! |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1978
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 5:03 pm: |
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I realize that I'm letting all this stuff get to me today, so it's my own darn fault for being a tad bit "irked," but man I can't wait to get out of here.
I just checked the calendar, and tomorrow is the official full moon, so I think you may be onto something blackcat. Oh - and I used to have a boss who clipped his nails too and my desk was right outside of his office. Yeeeccchhhh.... |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14944
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 5:23 pm: |
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About a year ago, I was at the urinal at work. I guess I let out a sigh, but at my age, it's unconscious and involuntary. The guy next to me said, "it's a relief, isn't it?" I guess he was making light of it, but I wish he hadn't.
Tolerance works best when it goes both ways.
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Joanne G
Citizen
Username: Joanne
Post Number: 328
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 11:38 pm: |
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that gave me the best laugh I've had all day - thank you Tom R!! 
(been a tough day here, not because of cube-dom but internal politics and imminent menopause issues and other Life Matters. Glad you are all out there, keeping me sane-ish:  ) |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 3532
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 10, 2006 - 11:39 pm: |
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on Friday a cow-orker can to my cube, sat down in the spare chair, and proceeded to take off his shoe and sock so that he could put a band-aid on the blister on his Achilles tendon - he says he just got some new shoes, and he was breaking them in that day. |
Chris Prenovost
Citizen
Username: Chris_prenovost
Post Number: 989
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 7:06 am: |
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Reading all the above, I am suddenly VERY glad to have a private office. . . |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1980
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 9:14 am: |
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Rastro - that's really, really gross. I'll take "gulp,smack,ahh" chick any day over that. |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 8299
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 11:10 am: |
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My fake-admin was hit in the head by an errant soccer ball when she dropped her kids off at camp yesterday.
This is, apparently, a Class D felony. All day long, she's on the phone, screaming.
Lack of supervision!
Playing indoors!
Could be a concussion!
Responsible for my children!
Safety!
Pain!
Ruined my day!
By 3p, I wanted to choke the living •••• out of her. And she, who shuts her computer off precisely at 4:25 every day and is out the door at 4:29:47, stayed to make phone calls about her injury until 4:53p.
She's quiet today; other wise, I'd be winging a stapler at her head. |
las
Citizen
Username: Las
Post Number: 2044
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 11:21 am: |
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I don't mean to gloat here but yesterday I got back to my desk and there was a plate full of cakes on my ledge! Don't know where they came from, but I nibbled all afternoon. There were so many cakes on that plate I ended up leaving the extras in the pantry.
Those cakes were such a treat I didn't even hear my area-mate on the phone snorting away as she counted down towards her retirement, approx three years from now, but really, only one day less than the countdown from Friday, and one day more from her countdown this morning.
I never get tired of the countdown. Nor her snorts. Not ever. Not.
ps: Rastro, you've got one nasty-••• coworker. |
las
Citizen
Username: Las
Post Number: 2047
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 3:18 pm: |
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Omigosh! I'm one of those co-workers!
Someone just came to borrow my stapler but I couldn't hand it to her because I had my hands covered in hand cream.
I was applying it to my foot.  |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1994
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 3:37 pm: |
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las - you have me laughing outloud.
P.S. - Hot tea is the drink of choice with "gulp,smack,ahh" chick today, so she's been quiet today (can't drink hot tea fast). |
Project 37
Citizen
Username: Project37
Post Number: 146
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 3:44 pm: |
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AHHHHH - I feel your pain!
My obnoxious co-worker:
http://www.project37.net/index.php/2006/03/22/kevin/ |
las
Citizen
Username: Las
Post Number: 2048
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 3:48 pm: |
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I'm only halfway through your link and I note: Keving has FOUR jars of honey!! |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1995
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 3:53 pm: |
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P37 - I'm speechless.
Kevin needs to go to cubicle etiquette boot camp (ahhh....if there only were such a thing) |
dano
Citizen
Username: Dano
Post Number: 230
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 - 10:08 am: |
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You think that's bad... if you were unfortunate enough to be using the urinal in the men's room when this one guy was in the stall... he had this unusual practice of cleaning himself as he knelt down. Based on proximity of this small stall he basically had his head almost in the toilet as he wiped himself from behind. Man everyone got a show!!! Wish those stall doors went all the way down to the floor not 18" above. At one point he was doing it with such regularity every morning at 10am that groups would go in to see just because they could not believe that someone would actually do this!! True and very disturbing story!! |
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