I work at an aviation company where all the men are old enough to by my dad . . . . . . . . . . . ‘s grandfather (just kidding…love you guys!). And so when a new piece of young meat comes into the office, whether he’s cute or not, everyone takes note. Yesterday was no exception.
This new guy, who we affectionately named Spiderman, walked passed by my department at least four times. Please note that there are five 20-something year old girls (including myself) who work in my department. We all took note of and joked about his constant grazing back and forth. In the afternoon, I took a trip to Starbucks. When I returned, I asked my colleague if Spiderman had been by again. She started to answer : “No. Spiderman ha—“. She stopped abruptly. I looked up from my desk and there he was emerging from around the corner. I swear he must have been crawling on the ceiling with his Spiderman a** because we did not hear him coming! We immediately fell deathly silent! I’m sure his spider senses were buzzing off the Richter!
I immediately started scrambling for something to say in order to fill the silence. Because EVERYBODY knows that if you walk into a room and it falls silent, you were more than likely the topic of discussion. In my state of mania, I said the first thing that came to my mind :
“I was hoping to catch some of his web.”
I smacked my forehead and Spiderman immediately started laughing. Then, as if things weren’t bad enough, my boss came out and said :
“Wow. That sounded really flirtatious!”
At this point, we all started laughing, including Spiderman. After what seemed like an hour, he finally finished walking past our crazy department. We all laughed about it (and I cried a little bit on the inside) for about an hour. Needless to say, we never saw him again for the rest of the day. We’re pretty sure that he started taking the long way back to his desk in order to avoid crazy lane!
*sigh*
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