I had the perfect Halloween costume picked out to wear to work today: I decided to wear a long white coat, blue latex gloves, and a pair of goggly safety glasses.

I was very disappointed to get here and find that most of the other people I work with decided to come wearing the exactly the same thing. Damn.

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