I remembered a moment from work today that just made me laugh as I remembered it and so, whilst no one else may actually find this funny, I thought I’d share.
I was stood at the photocopier waiting for my printing to come out, whilst trying to maintain a conversation with a colleague. I was definitely masking my way through the conversation, which I should know by now as something I can’t multitask with. It takes all of my focus, but I gave it a go anyway.
Someone else’s printing came out before mine, so I thought I’d be helpful and stack it neatly and place it on the side for them to collect. At this point I was still talking to my colleague. Well rather than placing the paper on the side like I meant to and continuing on with the small talk I was trying to navigate, I instead turned to the printer and tried to hand it back the stack of printing and said “thank you, that was very kind of you” in reference to me organising the stack of papers.
My colleague didn’t really know what to do with this, but they definitely noticed mid conversation that I both tried to return some paper to the printer and simultaneously thanked it for my own organisation and for ‘being very kind’. I think I may have malfunctioned a bit… And they definitely did a double take and got out of my vicinity as quickly as possible (probably worried that I was now able to communicate with technology).
Do you have any light hearted stories like this that you want to share?
