"can i have a redo?"

It was looking like a slow day this morning... And then one of my 3 pod-mates* asked me to do several high-priority, minutely-detailed projects, and I was off and running. In fact, I stayed through lunch, and by the time 4:00 rolled around, I had barely noticed where the time had gone. It's probably safe to say that I had worked myself into that strange state where everything seems hilarious.

Towards the end of the day, another of my pod-mates began to complain aloud about how his new computer was misbehaving. Just that morning, he had been unable to run any Flash demos. Now he searching "life cycles" on Google, and none of the links were working. His clicks were all for naught, and that was pretty funny by itself. He then called me over to see for myself, so I obliged by rolling backwards toward his corner of the pod and swiveling to face him.

"See? If I click on any link on the page,"click," it doesn't do anything."
"That's pretty weird, considering it's a new.... whoa, whoa, WHAT are you DOING over here?"

He looked back at his monitor to see that his "example-click" had inadvertently been on the words "Taking Charge of your Fertility."

If only the link had worked....



* As of about a month ago, my group moved from one-person cubicles to 4-people, low-walled enclosures that we affectionately refer to as "pods." While pods do not promote as much efficiency as upper-management mightlike, us pod-heads have gotten to know each other on a much more personal level...