Tag Archives: worklife

the unicorn song

I was bored with WPFW and scanning radio stations when I landed on the classic rock station, which was playing the Rovers cover of that American Irish pub favorite, Shel Silverstein’s Unicorn Song.

As if this wasn’t odd and amusing enough, I realized when the last chorus started that many people in surrounding cars were sort of dancing along. In their cars. And presumably sober.

I was near tears watching the Boomers act out “cats and rats and elephants” as they waited for the light to change. I think it may well have been the single weirdest (and funniest) thing I’ve ever seen while driving to work.

I think you have to pick one

The same co-workers who complained for an hour this morning about how Christmas should not be a holiday because it caters to Christians have now shifted to complaining about working on the day after Christmas and how unfair it is.

Dr. Noodles and I have decided to just turn our offices into a bunker (not exactly a stretch of either the imagination or available resources) and play loud music all day to keep everyone away.

squirrel swat team fails

Squirrel Relocation Plan Backfires

28th St. N., 6900 block, March 18. Responding to a report of a resident trapping squirrels in a back yard, an animal control officer met with the resident, who said that squirrels had been eating and destroying a garden. The resident had been trapping the animals (allegedly without a permit) and relocating them, but it did not seem to be working. The officer explained that when wildlife is removed, other wildlife moves in. The officer suggested placing a bucket of ammonia near the area as a deterrence.

I wonder if I could deter my co-workers by placing a bucket of ammonia outside my office door?


plucked from the ashes of the punkprincess.com archives, reposted 02-28-07