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Date: 08 December 2004 20:22:21
Well, it was a double emergency, what did they expect me to do? Personally I think it was very heroic of me and the stick I got in the staffroom for it was definitely an indictment on their appreciation of the sacrifice I made. Let me explain.
One of our staff is highly allergic to a wide range of stimuli, including nuts. And when I say highly allergic, I mean it. A whiff of an almond or a strawberry at ninety paces and she's out for the count and it's epipens at the ready and everyone out to move their double-parked cars from the carpark to let the ambulance through. So when some fool of a member of staff brought bakewell tarts and mincepies into the staffroom, it was the noble thing to do to eat as many as I could as quickly as I could before J came in for her break. Without a second thought for my own safety, I devoured a cherry bakewell and grabbed a handful of mincepie as I made my way to the coffee-making area. It was here that the second half of the emergency occured and only my quick-thinking saved the day. With cup of coffee in one hand and a goodly half of a mincepie in the other, I suddenly noticed that the coffee container was about to tumble out of the cupboard. With reactions like the speed of light, I put the mincepie in the only safe place available and leapt to rescue the falling container.
It was at this point that a colleague saw fit to ask me a question. It's a sad sad day when a hard-working and self-sacrificing member of staff gets ridiculed by her colleagues who suspect that she may have inserted an entire mince-pie into her mouth in one go. It was, after all, only a goodly half, and that only in a double emergency. And then for them to imply that the reason that said member of staff was unable to defend herself was because she had bitten off far more than she could chew was... well, it wasn't that I couldn't reply of course, it was that I simply chose not to ;)