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Date: 17 February 2005 06:40:36
Well it has been a quiet week at the house of chops and I have only worked 10 whole hours. It is part of the dangers of working as a casual. Next week is a whole lot fuller than this week. But generally it works well for me as I am a volunteer Church yoof worker. I help look after all of the youth in my denomination for my state.
The only highlight from the house of Chops this week was the return from holidays of my colleague who in this forum will be known as “the Rainbow Connection”. R.C has been a floorie for many years now. He started in the building in the food and beverage department and then became a floorie. He has been with the company almost 10 yrs he is days away from his 10 yr anniversary. A big deal is made in our building when you turn 3 you get a pewter mug and saucer and at 5 you join the 5 yr club that has lunches and you get a caricature of yourself in a frame. Most people have them in their offices. So the floorie office is a mix of signed block mounted posters and caricatures. They recently had a raid of our office for the staff canteen and stole our prized Nana Mouskouri poster. That's scandalous isn't it. Nothing's sacred.
Anyway back to the return of R.C he was in the motherland for three weeks and saw many splendid sites. Highlights include the tower of London which is one of my personal fav places to go in London. He got up to all sorts of fun. R.C was telling me stories and then suddenly I jumped as I heard a shrill and loud “exterminate all humans”. I jumped and turned and there was a 30 cm high dalek coming at me using 7 various phrases and pointing it's blaster at me. Our R.C is a bit of a Doctor Who fan and bought himself a remote control Dalek. They are very much most cool. I managed to have a turn and not run it into anything. I was also very lucky to receive a Tower Bridge snow globe. It is another for my collection. My snow globe collection is a thing that others mock but it now sits proudly at 4 snow globes! People say that's not much of a collection. I explain that it is just the beginning and a collection has to start somewhere. It has joined the three glorious wonders of the modern world that already feature in my collection. I even have a Big Pineapple snow globe which is at the top as my most prized globe. So if anyone would like to send me some globes to enlarge my collection just drop me a comment and we can see what we can do.
We also took care of some very important business. We organised steak club. Every month the floories venture out to another location and sample the finest wares of that establishment. The official name of the club is the xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx Steak Appreciation Society. It is most fun to call somewhere and when they ask the booking name to blurt out the name real quick. Then they say did you just say the xxxxx xxxxx xxxx xxxx Steak Appreciation Society. And then to say yes, yes I did. The reply is always “oh”. Sounds like a fun club which we reply “yes it is”.
The steak club has several rules.
1. There is no steak club. Our boss is not invited and it is strictly invite only.
2. No talking about work unless it is the “sharing of information (gossip)”. As a aside I love how we Christians don't gossip but share information in love.
3. It must be at a pub.
4. It must have steak.
These rules are simple and mostly adhered to. Sometimes we need to enforce the 2nd rule. But normally a good time and conversation is had outside of the work context. We even invite a few floories emeritus normally. Our number floats around the 10-14 pax. Steak club originally started as a boy only thing. But before we had the first one I had the chance to go on a date with the lovely one before we were a couple and I had arranged to go out on the Saturday with her. But my boss begged me to work on the Saturday. Being desperate to create a chance to see her I changed the no girl rule and opened the flood gates. That was the night I summoned the courage to ask the lovely one out. By the way she obviously said yes. This was after a year of Chops majorly crushing on the Lovely one and never having the guts to say something. But the day of the first steak club I discovered the lovely one was 25 days from going overseas for 3 months. I needed to strike quickly. My colleagues and friends were grateful for me finally getting an answer as they were very sick of me pining after the lovely one and not knowing how she felt. I think they were happy that I finally knew either way how she felt. It has been a very long year of not knowing how she felt. They then put up with me as I continued to pine for 3 months while she was away.
As you can see from my being run over by a dalek, increasing my snow globe collection and organising steak club was pretty much all the interesting stuff I did at work this week. Which shows you how slow a building like ours feels after a extended busy period. We still had 20 events on this week. But they were all pretty tiny. But next week promises to be a whole lot busier.
Till next time,
Chops