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Dira Sudis ([personal profile] dira) wrote2003-10-05 12:57 am

So it's... Saturday? ish?

I'm really disoriented right now - home from work at 12:30 instead of 6, so I've got hours and hours of free (and awake!) time ahead of me, which means...



I'm in aisle 9, re-counting the scrapbooking section - hand-counting 120 sheets of scrapbook paper, discovering the the inventory people can't count to two or understand that the 'Time to Reorder' sign, despite having a barcode, is not actually an item - when I hear...

JOEL (Manager, have a crush on him, geek in denial): Well, not like woohoo, like, skiing is fun.

ERIC (Supervisor, geek): But do you ever read for enjoyment?

JOEL: Well, porn.

Flashback to yesterday at work; I'm sitting at the top of a ladder, labeling things, while Joel sorts through the software rack.

JOEL: Mary Kate and Ashley's Dance Party of the Century. ... I'm just waiting for them to do porn.

ME: ... Yeah, Mary Kate and Ashley on the cover of Playboy.

JOEL: No, no, like, hard core. They'd make a killing.

ME: I don't think anybody makes a killing in hard core porn.

JOEL: Oh yeah they do.

ME: Well, somebody does, but not the actors.

JOEL: Well, no, especially not the guys.

ME: Yeah, they're nasty looking. (Do not mention that the guys in gay porn are an exception.)

JOEL: How do you know that?

ME: Um, because I've seen some porn. Eighteenth birthday. It was weird, though.

JOEL: Well, yeah, you weren't watching it for, y'know--

ME: Yeah, and chicks are more verbally oriented anyway. That's why women have romance novels where men have porn.

JOEL: Really?

ME: Well, not to say that there aren't--(realize who I'm talking to and what I'm saying)--I'm going to stop now.


Back in aisle 10...

OTHER GUY: Maxim?

JOEL: No, the hard core stuff. Well, whatever I can get my hands on.

ME: (hands on? no, not saying anything...)

JOEL: But, Eric, you had a question, what was your question?

ERIC: I think we've established you don't want to answer.

JOEL: No, no I want to answer.

ERIC: ...

JOEL: C'mon, shoot.

ME and MARY (Sweet innocent Catholic girl): gales of laughter

JOEL: Why are you laughing? What, we went from 'porn' to 'shoot'?

ME: Yeah, Joel, yeah you did. (More laughter)


(Later) Eric walks down my aisle.

ERIC: Were you in on the giggling?

ME: Yeah.

ERIC: I just want you to know I feel dirty now that you've thought about me and Joel that way.

ME: I don't visualize, man. It was just the, uh, wordplay. Swear.

ERIC: Oh, that's better, then.



Which is to say, okay. Inventory's not so bad after all, as long as I've changed jobs by next year and never ever have to do it again.