My friend/colleague whose cube is directly across from mine has been seriously stressed out over the past two weeks. She's been working on fixing some of the bugs for a new product we're launching, and has needed to vent several times a day because whenever something gets fixed, seven new things break.
Today, she just kept saying over and over, "I need a cat. I seriously need something to cuddle, and I just want a cat to squeeze!"
She rebuffed all of my stress ball offers - even the ones that perfectly fit in your hand and the adorable animal ones - because "I can't cuddle with those like I could with a cat!"
Since finding and bringing her a real cat would have been actual work, plus I had a meeting to attend like five minutes later, I did what any caring colleague would do: I scrambled around my desk to figure out the closest thing I had to a cat, which of course, was a choice between a pencil holder or a plant.
I was just about to give up when I spotted my fuzzy hoodie and got a stroke of brilliance. Remember the time I made a cat out of a hoodie? I grabbed a few rubber bands to make a neck and ears, drew a cat face saying "meow" with a Post-it, and set my fuzzy creation on my colleague's extra chair for her. She turned in her chair, took one look at this abomination of a cat creation, and laughed straight until I went to my meeting.
When I got back, I saw that she had stuck a dead fish Post-it note on him; drew him some whiskers, cat food, and water; and told me that his name was Herman (which happens to be one of my favorite names in the entire world).
Thanks to my colleague for not thinking I'm a complete nutcase.
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