Delayed funnyfication

Last year about this time I came back to work after two week's holidays.  I took the time off because of my second son's birth.  I took vacation rather than parental leave because 75% pay for two weeks or so just wouldn't cut it in our house.

Upon my return to the office, I was shocked and amused to find several hundred infant diapers strewn liberally about my work space.  It took me about an hour to find and stuff them all into a big bag to take home that evening.  My co-workers got a very good laugh at my expense.

They got bigger laughs over the next couple weeks when I'd find some of the more ingeniously hidden diapers and shout out my faux angst for all to hear.  Good times.

The biggest laugh of all came today.  I was an hour away from the office on a site visit for a prospective job we may want to bid.  This job is on an existing industrial plant site for a large petro-chemical company.  Any of that sort of work requires visitors to be properly attired in standard safety gear like hard hats, safety glasses, steel-toed boots and the like.

When I parked by the security office at the main gate, I pulled my work boots out of the back seat, flicked off my shoes and found that I couldn't put my boots on because there was an infant diaper stuffed deep into the toe of each.  It took me a moment to realise why they were there, and another to appreciate that I was getting this a full year after the initial infiltration.  I laughed, and then felt grateful that it happened in the parking lot and not in the middle of the conference room I was headed to.

*****

Random bit:

One of Declan's favourite shows on the Treehouse network is Emily Yeung.  A six year-old girl who interviews adults in their jobs and is just cute as a button, and she should stop doing it before too much longer because she'll eventually end up IN one of those jobs and it won't be very cute then, will it?

Whenever the show comes on, or even if Dex hears the opening strains of the theme music, his eyes get big and round, he throws his arms up in the air, and he shouts out to the entire house, "YUMMY YOUNG!!"  Which is so deliciously inappropriate that I laugh every time.

Comments

[Mark]

Few practical jokes tickle my funny bone, because so many are mean-spirited. That diaper thing, though, cracked me right up.

[Moksha Gren]

That's great. Although I kinda wish you HAD been in the conference room.

A group of friends and I once went to the Olive Garden and brought home some food in a doggie bag. Upon opening said doggie bag, the once fluffy roll was rock hard. So, of course we promptly drew an angry face on it and began a long game of hiding the roll in various places where unsespecting friends would find it and be properly terrified of the Evil Roll. After a month or two, Evil Roll dissappeared. No one quite remembers who hid him last or where he might be hiding. And although that was about four years ago or so...we all know that some day one of us is going to open some box/drawer/item of clothing and find a very patient Evil Roll waiting for us.

[Xavier]

That Emily Yeung is a cutie! I'm crushed.

- Xavier

[Émilie B.]

LoL Simon's coworkers... and Moksha!

[Linda]

Mokker just reminded me (Cute story Simon.) When JuJu moved back home after having been out on her own, somehow we got in the habit of putting a single little red heart sticker in odd places where the other would be sure to see it. We did this back and forth for a long time. It never failed to remind me of the love between us. At some point the stickiness wore off and it most likely got sucked up in the vacuum. But thanks for reminding me of it... :-)