Heather's Daily Digression - October 14, 2004

It’s always a little weird to see co-workers outside of work. It seems unnatural to see someone you work with outside of their natural habitat…that being work. I would like to think that I’m the only one with a life outside work. Everyone else is just in the office all day and then come night time, they roll out a sleeping bag on the office floor and go to sleep. I don’t like the idea of my co-workers lurking around on the street where they might run into me. That opens up the possibility of an awkward run-in with me.

Today I was walking back from lunch and I saw my old-lady co-worker walking towards me. So I stopped and said and enthusiastic “Hi!” But she just kept on walking. I sort of turned and watched her walk past me. “Hi?” I said again… OK, either she totally just blew me off (but what reason would old-lady-office-worker have to dislike me?) or she just didn’t see me and I can just keep walking and pretend this never happened. So that’s what I did. We shall never speak of this again.