for the second day in a row...
...a female has deliberately hit me.
#1: A first grader at TOCKITEW's school Christmas party. I was running the dreidel game (not too bad after I implemented my own rake, and since the house = me, the entire cut was MINE) and while asking each player's name I got to the girl who normally sits next to TOCKITEW and thus I had seen her name plate.
jrh: And your name is Ralph, right?
Ralph: No. Why ever would you say that?
jrh: Aren't you named after Ralph Lauren?
Lauren: [hits jrh]
They were playing for M&Ms, though they were to return all of them at the end of the game. Unsurprisingly there were complaints over this so I always told them they could have one or two but they /had/ to keep that quiet. And for the (if non-annoying) bigger complainers even allowed THREE, but they really had to be /silent/ about THAT. Ralph held her take (about 10 or so) out in her outstretched hand then stuffed them all in her mouth at once and smiled an M&M-eating grin until finished. Then walked off to the next table.
#2: Even though I was working from home I had to run into town this afternoon after The Counter-Culture Intransigent was claiming far more ignorance on the phone than I thought she had and in the process of fixing her machine she hit me! Out of the blue. But, she gave me festively-boxed home-baked holiday cookies, which was the real reason for the seeming ignorance. But that doesn't make up for the extreme physical workplace violence.
#1: A first grader at TOCKITEW's school Christmas party. I was running the dreidel game (not too bad after I implemented my own rake, and since the house = me, the entire cut was MINE) and while asking each player's name I got to the girl who normally sits next to TOCKITEW and thus I had seen her name plate.
jrh: And your name is Ralph, right?
Ralph: No. Why ever would you say that?
jrh: Aren't you named after Ralph Lauren?
Lauren: [hits jrh]
They were playing for M&Ms, though they were to return all of them at the end of the game. Unsurprisingly there were complaints over this so I always told them they could have one or two but they /had/ to keep that quiet. And for the (if non-annoying) bigger complainers even allowed THREE, but they really had to be /silent/ about THAT. Ralph held her take (about 10 or so) out in her outstretched hand then stuffed them all in her mouth at once and smiled an M&M-eating grin until finished. Then walked off to the next table.
#2: Even though I was working from home I had to run into town this afternoon after The Counter-Culture Intransigent was claiming far more ignorance on the phone than I thought she had and in the process of fixing her machine she hit me! Out of the blue. But, she gave me festively-boxed home-baked holiday cookies, which was the real reason for the seeming ignorance. But that doesn't make up for the extreme physical workplace violence.