Some People

Here’s another one for the ‘my colleagues were obviously raised by wolves file.’ I get it, my desk is the closest one to the kitchen but does that give you the right to ‘shop’ for supplies whenever you want to buy something from the office snack shop and see that there is no pen beside the IOU sheet? Not only did you swipe my favourite pen, twice, but you also helped yourself to all of my hand sanitizer (the grapefruit-smelling one, not the yucky alcohol-smelling one.) Karma is a bitch and if I smell grapefruit on your paws or see you with my much adored pen behind your ear, your ass is grass.

My Apology

Ever since Air Canada acquired my beloved Canadian Airlines, I have hated them with a level of passion perhaps only outpassioned by my love of mayonnaise (those who know me well, know that that that is a LOT.) Some of that hatred was completely justified: delayed luggage, getting bumped, being poorly compensated when stranded in amazing cities such as Winnipeg and Regina, etc. I would go out of my way to travel WestJet or any other airline and booo the Air Canada logo whenever I saw it. In the last few years I have been traveling a fair amount, mostly on US carriers. Ugly flight attendants aside, most US carriers are barely a step above a Greyhound Bus (with the exception of Horizon Air, yeah Dea!) Imagine my surprise when I boarded my Air Canada flight to Montreal today and was greeted with genuine smiles, a clean aircraft and a working entertainment system on every single seat back, incredible! Air Canada, I am sorry that I bad mouthed you for so long to so many people, I was wrong…can you ever forgive me? Let’s start over.

Tech Support Woes

Rogers Wireless has this amazing ability to make me feel stupid and I don’t like it one bit. I was having an issue with e-mail not coming to my device so I fell back on my tried and true methods and then went on-line and followed their directions to a T, to no avail. I begrudgingly called Rogers support and the guy laughed through my whole attempt to tell him what the dealio was. You asswipe, if it wasn’t for technically challenged people like me, you wouldn’t have a job. Suck it Rogers.

Mad World

I have been obsessed with the show Mad Men since it came out in 2007 and there is not a single thing that I do not adore about this show: the storylines, the clothing, etc. They were really onto something with the whole bar in your office, 'let’s hash this out over something strong' kind of mentality. I also adore the pre-Bumpit beehive hairdos…I really missed out on my era.

Chivalry is Indeed Dead

Well at least in my office it is. I work in a very male dominated office and it seems like a large number of them seem to think that some tasks are for girls and are below them. We are located in the penthouse of a fancy schmancy tower and seeing as no one sits up front, we had a doorbell installed so that we could hear couriers and visitors arriving. I have sat all over the office and I know for a fact that there is an area right by the door where a group of guys sit that can hear the door but they choose to ignore it 99% of the time which means that either me (who was recently hit by a truck and injured) or my very pregnant office mate Rena, have to constantly run and answer the door while the guys just sit there with stupid grins on their faces. Most of the time the doorbell rings for one person in particular who is always having his personal packages sent to the office. Rena and I have decided that next time this happens, his package will be waiting for him in the women's washroom...take that you smug asshole.

Last Meal

Why is it that whenever American media has a story about someone being executed that they feel the need to share what the prisoner requested for their last meal? I don’t get it, who cares? Perhaps I just don’t ‘get’ capital punishment to begin with, I dunno. I also wonder what I would pick for my last meal, that's a tough call.