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Apr. 8th, 2011 08:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupSo, it's raining in Chicago today.
When I was walking to work from the train it was mild enough that I didn't bother opening my umbrella; I spent four years in the Pacific Northwest and you can tell the Freshmen and tourists because they're the ones who even bother carrying umbrellas. The rest of us just tolerate getting wet.
Anyway, it was just spitty, but apparently it's got worse since then.
Another fun fact: Coworker Crush walks to work every day, because she lives about two miles away.
So I'm sitting here at the reception desk when she walks in, hair PLASTERED to her head, coat soaking wet and trousers damp from the knee down.
"You look soaked," I said, like an idiot.
"I left my umbrella at home! I walked two miles through the rain!" she snarled.
"Well, um, you're making it work?" said I.
"Don't push it," she told me, and went off, hopefully to find a towel.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
When I was walking to work from the train it was mild enough that I didn't bother opening my umbrella; I spent four years in the Pacific Northwest and you can tell the Freshmen and tourists because they're the ones who even bother carrying umbrellas. The rest of us just tolerate getting wet.
Anyway, it was just spitty, but apparently it's got worse since then.
Another fun fact: Coworker Crush walks to work every day, because she lives about two miles away.
So I'm sitting here at the reception desk when she walks in, hair PLASTERED to her head, coat soaking wet and trousers damp from the knee down.
"You look soaked," I said, like an idiot.
"I left my umbrella at home! I walked two miles through the rain!" she snarled.
"Well, um, you're making it work?" said I.
"Don't push it," she told me, and went off, hopefully to find a towel.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
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Date: 2011-04-08 01:09 pm (UTC)PS - Maybe you can make her an origami umbrella?
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Date: 2011-04-08 01:23 pm (UTC)EDIT: Linkfail.
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Date: 2011-04-08 01:51 pm (UTC)On a different note, could Coworker Crush get her own tag? *g*
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Date: 2011-04-08 03:24 pm (UTC)Possibly I'm just too used to the sensation; I am notoriously bad at catching double entendres. I once took an entire conversation about "master debators" and "cunning linguists" perfectly seriously while everyone else in the room snickered behind their hands.
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Date: 2011-04-08 03:26 pm (UTC)http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/3171689.html?thread=69800553#t69800553
Basically, yeah, it's "studying origami" while implying "studying the folds of a woman's genitals" :D
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Date: 2011-04-08 02:15 pm (UTC)But maybe that would be a bit forward to her, if you had one to offer her?
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Date: 2011-04-09 07:27 pm (UTC)... Damn, I need a more relevant Psmith icon here. For chivalry/practical socialism with umbrellas, look no further!
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Date: 2011-04-11 02:19 pm (UTC)The icon I've got actually comes from later in the book, when he's desperately trying to find work in order to avoid going back to his uncle's fish factory. I don't think it's the business you're thinking of (though weirdly, I seem to remember something similar, though I can't remember titles or anything), but Psmith is totally awesome and adorable and I will happily blather on about his books all day. :)
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Date: 2011-04-11 02:28 pm (UTC)Yeah-in the story I'm thinking of, a (very wealthy) woman calls up, and she has a darling nephew who has broken his leg skiing in the Alps, and she has a society ball that she is hosting the next night in NYC. The "fixers" call the hospital and spend inordinate amounts of money to ensure that all his nurses are ugly, then jet auntie over to Switzerland to care for him, and set up a live film connection, so she can greet her guests in actual, real-life, person, AND find a double who can then float around the party and be her doppelganger.
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Date: 2011-04-11 03:38 pm (UTC)I have this feeling it's a Heinlein short story or something of the sorts; I devoured his bibliography when I was a teen.
Title just popped into my head! "We also walk dogs."
No wonder it sounded so familiar!
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Date: 2011-04-08 05:19 pm (UTC)But man, that sounds like it was terrible outside! I agree with the above posters that an origami umbrella would be adorable. :D
Also, I just reread Charitable Getting, and it makes me very happy.
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Date: 2011-04-09 11:18 am (UTC)Nate
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Date: 2011-04-09 12:49 am (UTC)Patterpatterpatterpatter. Happy sound. :)
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