The woman in the cubicle next to me

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...is listening to the "De-Lovely" soundtrack on headphones. Not only is it so loud that I can hear the music, but she's singing along, horribly off-key.

This woman is, by the way, a rather hopeless and pathetic case but also so off-putting and obnoxious that I am much ruder to her than I would have imagined myself capable of in an office environment. Mostly I cut her off when she stands up, leans on the wall separating our cubicles, and starts in about something or other....

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and sometimes she leaves her headphones on when she waddles over to my cubicle, or to our supervisor's cubicle, and asks questions in a bracingly loud voice, as though we were across a gym floor from her.

Right now I wouldn't say she's "singing" along, just emmitting a low hum of little discernable musical content.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Yesterday she came over to tell us that we Had to listen to this version of "St. James Infirmary" by Dr. John. She reached out to place the headphones on me and I sort of pulled back and said, in as polite a way I could muster (not very), that I wasn't in the mood. She successfully forced the headphones on our supervisor who smiled awkwardly and then did her best (like I do so often) to try to let the subsequent conversation wither without being too obviously rude.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

We really need to get her and my work pal together.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

So they can have buttsnex on the couch?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel sorry for her. She seems just aware of the impact of her presence enough to apologize repeatedly, but not capable--like most of us, I suppose--of truly recognizing what makes her so difficult to tolerate let alone being able to change it. She's in her late 50s and in temping for 10 dollars an hour after having been laid off from some vaguely mysterious job working for a hospital-based research group, about which she talks constantly. She's also breathtakingly computer illiterate, having asked me no less than four times in one day how to create a new folder in Windows. She's not completely incompetent, something I say reluctantly because I have a very low tolerance for incompetence, but she does seem incapable of making the smallest decisions by herself, and repeatedly asks me for answers such that I feel I've unwillingly assumed some kind of mid-level supervisory position.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe she's got Aspergers Syndrome.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

As an example of something that makes me both pity and recoil from her, when I mentioned having lived in France, she drifted off into this long spiel about how she feels justified in not liking the Germans (though whenever I protested--feebly, since I didn't want to get drawn into some pointless argument--that the Germans are a fine people, she would back up and say "oh sure, oh sure," as with everything) and then how she wasn't going to travel to Europe until she "lost some weight" (she must weigh at least 250 pounds). If I were feeling candid I might have suggested she just book a ticket now and forget about the losing weight part.

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What is Aspergers Syndrome?

Sorry to write all this, I just have nothing to do at work at the moment and haven't mentioned her to anyone before.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I like St. James Infirmary.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I do too, I mentioned to her that my favorite version is by Louis Armstrong and she sort of stared off into space.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

If your life was a reality TV show, it would turn out that she's really your boss or your mom or an exgirlfriend in a fat suit and fat makeup. Have you checked for a zipper in the back of her head?

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

aspergers is some weird learning dysability. i don't really know all that much about it tho.

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I've read this thing twice, and I'm still not sure what Apsergers is.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't it a mild form of autism?

amt, you better win the next immunity, just to be on the safe side.

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i probably should own up to the fact i find her physical presence off-putting in itself, and sometimes fear that i might be more tolerant of her other traits if she were less such. then again certain of her traits seem to be (unfortunately) common among people who have suffered for a long time with an extreme degree of social stigma. i suppose that's a controversial and possibly bigoted statement so i've left it deliberately (if mildly) obscure.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i can hear her breathing now.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

well, you should do someting about that then.

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i can see what happens when i forget to bring my discman to work.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Aspergers is indeed a very mild form of autism.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but door knobs?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

aspergers syndrome is thought to be (and is sometimes classified as) mild autism. generally it doesn't affect learning or vocabulary skills but rather it affects social cognition. those who have it don't pick up on non-verbal clues like body language. they tend to perceive the world very differently and may have a collection of odd behaviors to which they are oblivious. they also tend to focus on certain subjects of interest.

the more i read about it the more i think i might have it. all this time i thought i was retarded and i'm just neurobiologically disordered! huzzah!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i have another coworker who exhibits such tendencies, but i think it's partly the result of about a decade of taking valium for depression.

lots of people exhibit an ignorance of how they appear to other people. i'm exceptionally paranoid about my possibly being like this.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that's pretty much it. My sister happens to suffer from Asperger's syndrome, and is always misinterpreting body language from strangers while out in the town (or wherever) - she keeps on thinking that they're threatening her or staring at her. Her own main interest is animation and cartoons, so it's not always doorknobs or whatever for these people. In fact her interest in it has led to her pursuing a job in the animation industry (she's studying it at university next September).

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

wait how can one tell the different between an aspberger-inspired "obsession" and a passionate interest?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean, presumably the usefulness of diagnosing someone with a syndrome is to the extent that such a diagnosis might lead to some kind of resolution to a problem that is fundamentally destructive. if the "symptom" is something that is constructive, i.e. your sister going into animation, then why bother characterizing it as a syndrome?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know but i have a weird thing for mass transit. as far as obsessions/compulsions go this is actually pretty handy since i don't own a car anymore.

why i think it's more than just a passionate interest: because i know way too much about too many rapid transit systems. not just chicago or boston or other places i've lived. places i've never been to and never will. it's weird but it's nice.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 16 July 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Asberger's is the current wildly overdiagnosed disorder of the month. Some folks are just socially inept, y'know?

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 16 July 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

What Colin and Amateurist have said are fair comments. I have heard a lot about how Asperger's is a hip blanket term for various slightly more nebulous (is that the right word?) problems. I see this guy about my depression and general anxiety, and he claims that he dislikes terms like Asperger's immensely.

My sister is very, very shy around people and does tend to be somewhat paranoid about people threatening or staring at her. Maybe it is a genuine syndrome, maybe (to echo what Colin says) she's just shy and has a problem with social stuff.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Friday, 16 July 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

the question for me is not really whether someone has a syndrome or doesn't (especially with "syndromes" that are only diagnosed on the basis of symptoms) but whether diagnosing them as having same could potentially lead to an amelioration of seriously crippling problems.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there any syndromes out there that grant their "victim" any special powers? Or are they all "negative"?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 16 July 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm an aspie, diagnosed 10 years before the trend (if there is a trend) and i explain it like this: Everyone in the world learns to play football or even doesn't have to learn, they just know. Aspies know how to play cricket (or something more obscure and less well loved--jai alai) and have to unlearn there game and relearn the new one, they will never be as good because they will never have spent the same amount of time playing them.

it also tends to explain physical awakrdness and poor fine/gross motor skills. ie being as clumsy as fuck all the time.

― anthony, Friday, 16 July 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Some people really have Asperger's, and some people really have borderline personality disorder, and some people really are helped by seratonin inhibitors -- I would never suggest otherwise. Nevertheless, there are trends in psychology, and I think that trendy diagnoses and therapies can be distructive.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 16 July 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The woman in the cubicle next to me knows *everything*. On Tuesday she told us that the President of China likes to rape young girls. When asked how she knew that, she said, "Oh, believe me, I know things."

All this week I've been listening to her expostulate on the Senate gay amendment debate (she is gay). While I largely agree with her opinions, she is so manifestly full of shit that it affects my work.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 16 July 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The first day on the job, the woman in the cubicle next to me stood up, leaned over the cubicle wall (in a gesture I find a bit irritating, because there's no way I can escape even if I diligently continue typing while she's prattling on), and said, in a tone so earnest as to invite disbelief (but believe me), "Boy, I just hate that Bush don't you?" That is pretty much the level of conversation she provides.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Another time, she regaled me and my supervisor with stories of how young people today are "running wild in the streets," but every time we cavilled, she offered a spongy qualification, which eventually reduced her argument to, "Oh, I just mean the kids at this one high school are running wild in the streets."

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

She also gives me a twice-daily Martha Stewart update.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 16 July 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

amateur!st, do you secretly work in my office?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 16 July 2004 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

this is very funny for immature Brits like me who see "cublicle" and immediately think "toilet".

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 17 July 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

cubicle even.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 17 July 2004 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a guy I work with who REALLY creeps me the crap out. He has epilepsy (I think), and so while I have great sympathy for the fact he is often ill/fainting/getting migraines, I get a bit tired of his CONSTANT whining about how he's ill, and he better not get laid off or the company would be in trouble, he's so depressed, blah blah.

Thats not the least of it though. I'll preface this by admitting I think he is extremely unattractive, and yet he makes constant surreptitious references to me and another girl I work with that suggest he has crushes on us. The guy is married, but has one of those swinging/poly relationships and is into S&M too I think. I dont wish to know any of this, but thanks to things like LJ I found out more than I wanted to know (until I took him off my friends list, ugh).

He'll read some headline in the paper that pisses him off and storm around the room shouting YOU SEE, THIS IS WHY EVERYONE SHOULD JUST BE NUKED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH GOD I HATE HUMANITY as if we'll all leap up and agree with him.

The other day, he MSNed me with "why havent you given up smoking yet!?" as we'd just all been to the pub. I replied "I never said I was!". He just decided he'd make it his business anyway.

It makes work rather uncomfortable. Ugh.

First post back, haha! I'm kinda not into all this posting and reading stuff anymore (lately?)... the break left me not missing it, really. Hum. :(

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 17 July 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

An epileptic who's into S&M? That could get messy.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 17 July 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys should just do what I do. When I start getting riled by an annoying co-worker I just take a deep huff or two of amyl nitrate and laugh in their face. It freaks them out and makes me feel better.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 17 July 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I stick a pill up my nose and play Black Strobe.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 17 July 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Posho.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 17 July 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got you all beat. This guy two computers down is a certified nutter. He rants and raves, alternating between extreme anger and laughter, sometimes at the top of his voice, until the whole building seems to shake and clients fear for their lives. Every few weeks someone tells him to pipe down.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 18 July 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 July 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

just now she leaned over the cubicle wall. she started talking about the convention, then said how she loves to hear ted kennedy speak, because "he gives bush hell. and you know what? i love it. lo-lo-lo-love it." she did this all in one of those molly shannon-esque overzealous affects, although i'm pretty sure she was deadly serious.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

just tell her you lerve bush already.
this is what it's coming to.
tell her bush is a decent, reasonable man and the best prez the unites states has even had.
then tell me what she does.
please.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Some d00d around here keeps fucking whistling to the start of every song he likes. For the last 2 weeks.

― fcussen (Burger), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

If anyone remembers the creepy conversations I have with my workmates about my sex-life, particularly 'The Virgin', well, she's still scaring me.

Me, passing through the office kitchen to the bathroom corridor. Notice The Virgin staring.

Me: What is it?

Her: I miss you.

Me: OK *runs for bathroom door*

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 29 July 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

STOP SINGING ALOUD GODAMMIT STOP

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, you HAVE to tell her to shut the fuck up. I don't know where you live, but whatever city or country you live in, it HAS to be ok to tell a person that annoying to shut the fuck up.

Here are some options.

1. *tap tap* "I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to stop singing along,"
2. *yells* "Shut the fuck up!"
3. *tap tap* "Hey, sorry to bother you. I hate to do this, but I am having a really hard time concentrating over there because you are singing along to your music. I don't know if you've noticed. Anyway, It's tough on me, and I would really appreciate it if you..." *punch her in the head and run*

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

just sing your favourite song out loud in retaliation! sing off!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

except there are other people that would suffer from such a war

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

get everyone to sing "perfect harmony"

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

aka "i'd like to teach the world to sing"

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Why can't you ask her to stop?

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Just send her the link to this thread.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

On a napkin.

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

she has such impossibly low self-esteem and is a compulsive apologizer as it is; she cuts a rather pathetic figure in general. each time i make some gentle criticism or advice, she seems to apologize all the more--it doesn't stop any of her annoying habits, it just makes her more self-conscious about them. i'm afraid if i comment on her singing, it will (a) make me feel like a bad guy; (b) crush her spirit that much more; (c) result in more meaningless apologies preceding annoying behavior.

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Just keep complaining to us about it then. Her social ineptitude or lack of concern shouldn't prevent you from politley asking her not to be an unnecessary disturbance at work.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

did i mention how she leaves on her headphones when talking to coworkers and thus TALKS IN A REALLY LOUD VOICE? or sometimes instead of walking over to our boss (whose cubicle is to the left on mine, while this woman's is to the right) she just SHOUTS OVER MY CUBICLE, or even walks into my cubicle, leans on the cubicle wall right next to me (she cannot stand up for long without leaning on something) and starts a conversation while i am trying to work? or, when i have my headphones on and cannot hear her well, she will continue to talk and talk and talk at me. after about 20 seconds i will remove the headphones and cast a glance in her direction.

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

actually sometimes she will take the headphones off AND STILL TALK IN LOUD "I HAVE HEADPHONES ON" VOICE.

she also talks about the job she was downsized from about 40 times per day.

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

sounds like *some*body has a crush.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

300 pounds of self-hating tone deaf luv

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Why don't you give me her phone number and I will call her and tell her I am from the Department of Labor and Industries, and that we got a complaint, and she should stop with the damn singing.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

in the last three hours, the woman in the cubicle next to me has:

proposed eliminating time zones in the United States--but then relented, saying that the time difference helps keep the electric power grid from being overloaded ("if all the heaters or all the air conditioners across the country went on at the same time, the system would crash"). hawaii could have its own zone, but not alaska, because "it's not that big--if you look at alaska on a globe, it seems really out there, but in real life it's just up there."

claimed that daylight savings time (summer time) should be abolished because it's "fake time"

claimed that our current calendar system is less accurate than "the old gregorian system" because we have to have leap days and such when the old calendar didn't

claimed that women's athletics in the United States trails that of the rest of the world by a large margin

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 23 August 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

In the face of such idiocy I would smile, nod, and cease paying her any heed whatsoever.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

the woman in the cubicle next to me reminds of how she "hate[s], just hate[s] george bush" every day. always in her stage-whisper, non-ironic conspiratorial molly shannon-esque voice.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

people who "confide" things to you in stage whispers, dud or dud?

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

wow this woman is completely nuts. Walk slowly away from your desk, then run when you get down the elevator.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean this alone:

is sheer mentalism.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

haha just be glad you don't have to hear her talk about baseball!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

tell her you're only 16 on the gregorian calendar and you've gotten out of paying taxes.

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

This reminds me of a phone conversation I had with a work colleague many years ago. She was in California; I was in New York. She said, "Okay, I'll fax it to you right now, but will you still be in the office to get it in three hours? You know, because of the time difference?"

― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 23 August 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahahahahahaha

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 23 August 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I once drove a woman to the airport who was perplexed at why her flight from St. Louis to New York took three hours, but only took one hour on the way back. I told her it was because the special fuel that they used in NEW YORK CITY made the planes go faster.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 23 August 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I think she's right about daylight saving time. However, plz provide her email address so we can send her details of WHY THEY CHANGED THE FUCKING JULIAN CALENDAR IN THE FIRST PLACE.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 23 August 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

and pro-bush propaganda

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 23 August 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Huge power grids going down because of overload? In August? Inconceivable!

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone in my office seems hyperintelligent alongside the dolts you guys often post about. I just can't believe such people exist.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to admit, even the wankers in my office dont spout bizarre dribble like this either.

Mind you some of them *do* spout rather racist codswallop about sending refugees back home with the word "illegal" and "lawbreaker" scattered about til I want to punch them one.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I just have to put up with hyper-bitchiness in my office. Like blatant whispered insults about other peeople and MSN conversations declaring so and so is a "slack bitch" and the like (we know this cos one of the said idiot bitches accidentally sent her message to the person it was about! Hahaha... man).

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

In the year I've been here I think I've scared the few bigoted coworkers of mine into silence with violent objection and instant challenging of their ridiculous viewpoints. It's very satisfying.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The co-workers I have that are close to being like that have learned to never talk to me anymore.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of my co-workers are lovely and intelligent.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Which is presumably why none of them want to be my friend :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't be the only UK person who reads "cubicle" and assumes "toilet cubicle", can I?

― Starry (hello chickens), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

No. I do the same and then snicker to myself in a dirty way.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I was in the loo earlier and the person in the cubicle next to me was pissing with bison-like ferocity if I do steal a phrase from Campbell myself. PRESSURE BLADDER!

― Starry (hello chickens), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

ah ha ha haa - "bison-like ferocity"

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

If I am ever in the restroom and I hear bovine bellowing coming from the next stall, I am running for the hills.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

moments ago:

'i can't have any religious materials in my house--christian, jewish, whatever--not because there's anything wrong with them, but because my mind is so creative that i can't help arguing their merits and problems in my head.'

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

It must be a burden, being so creative.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

why does she talk so LOUD?!?!?!

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

mookieproof's post is hilarious!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The girl next to me tried to give me her copy of the latest Rolling Stone. I declined politely.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The girl next to me is talking about the vinyl nurse's outfit she is planning to wear to this year's "Exotic Eroitc Ball".

― Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

i'm so glad i quit that job.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 6 May 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

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