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So, there's this guy who sits in the cube next to me who is on the phone all day. I never work with him, but I do always hear him talking to customers and so on. The other day I actually needed something from him, so I stopped by and we chatted about it. He agreed that he would get back to me. A couple hours later, I see a hand wave in front of my face--- "Dude, it's ready, did you get my email? Hello?" I turn and he's standing right there in my cube. I don't have headphones on or anything. I realize at that point that he's been repeating "It's ready" for about the last 30 seconds, but I'm so used to ignoring the sound of his voice that I literally did not hear what he was saying. The poor guy had to occlude my line of sight in order to get noticed. I guess this makes it a little easier to understand why relationships fail... :) |
Dude, I did the SAME THING the other day to my cube-mate and co-worker, the crazy girl who shouts and screams and sings gospel tunes at full volume all day long, nonstop. She's so loud and annoying that I go into a sort of mental cocoon; I'm so used to her shouting nonsense like "I'm a ninja!" and "Aliens are my mommy, AAGHH" that when she actually asks me intelligible questions I just automatically assume she's talking to her shoe or something.
Posted by: Jay at June 13, 2005 07:19 AMI often find I have the same reaction to... um what do ya call 'em? Oh yeah. Humans. I must say it is interesting that you focus on this incident as being your fault for not paying attention rather than benig angry at the guy next to you fro seriously invading your personal space and freaking you out. Three cheers! I'd've probably decked the guy... hahaha.
Posted by: at June 14, 2005 05:19 AM