I have no idea why I am so grumpy today. (this week? month? year?) I’d much rather be grumpy at work than at home, so I have no problems giving my “superiors” the evil eye. Also?I hate that word superiors. They aren’t superior to me, but they sure are acting like it. Smarmy MacStinkster from HQ keeps making snide comments. Our associates from New York City (which I always say in the voice used in those Pace Picante Sauce commercials) have made a few snide remarks as well about how thinks work around here. I guess Portland isn’t cosmopolitan enough for them. Yes, when you order a large number of sandwiches you have to place the order 24 hours in advance. If there were just a few of you, we would only need 30 minutes notice. No, this isn’t like New York. This is Portland. Home of the free-thinking, dog friendly, bike riding, environmental loving, marijuana smoking, hybrid car driving, microbrew drinking hippes thankyouverymuch. We like it just the way it is. Just put your freaking order on the piece of paper and keep your egotiscal “big city” mouth shut. Big Cheese keeps telling me to not let it bother me, but I’m just sensitive (which I say in the voice bossman used when he said that same line about himself when I asked if he wanted his free copy of Oprah’s magazine – his response [softly]: “yes. pause I’m sensitve.”)
I’m also hyper because Baja Fresh failed me today and I hate it when there are kinks in the chain. (they had to come back a second time to fulfill our order and still didn’t get it right – it has been over an hour and we’re still waiting for our tortilla chips)I am happy to realize that I must fully consider myself an Oregonian now because I am getting so defensive. Oh…oh…oh…also? There are 10 men in there and they had the one woman bring out the list for tomorrow’s lunches. No, she wasn’t the last person to place an order.
I have been having fun with our newest addition the office (board of directors member). He can be a royal jerk, but we’re able to joke around with him about it. Big Cheese and I called him DL (digitless because he’s missing some fingers from a table saw accident). I told him this morning that he was grumpy a lot and he just hasn’t let it go. Every time he passes me he says, “I’m not grumpy.” No, your just self-centered. But he bought us drinks and is letting us leave work early in a couple of weeks to go on a boat, so you’re not as bad.
I just want some darn chips and salsa.
-M
