some people you just don't forget

we have a new colleague. and it can't be funnier. he's funny, he talks funny, he walks funny and he reacts funny.

i hate people who drag their feet. i really do. i get extremely disturbed the same way i get disturbed when my skirt moves half a round around my hips, when i get a wedgie just before i need to sit down in public (happens on a daily basis), when someone rearranges my condiments in the kitchen. so when i first met him, i dreaded, thinking of the days to come having him at the workstation next to mine.

but for some reason, i also knew i'd be wrong this time.

and sometimes, feeling this wrong feels good.

by lunch, we were chatting like old friends. and over the course of the next few days, he started offering me his food.

to me, this is the ULTIMATE intimate type of friendship. sharing food with ME ME ME. ME who eats everything and anything and in two servings.

and one day, he asked me a question i couldn't answer - we are in different departments with different scopes. i said, "why don't you ask your boss?" so off he goes to find his boss. he comes back and exclaims incredulously "he's not coming back!"

not coming back?

"ok, then ask him tomorrow morning," while i was typing away furiously.

"no!" came a semi-hysterical shriek. "he's NEVER coming back!"

"oh. you mean, he's gone?" like, gone-gone fired?

"ya!" a series of hysterical what-am-i-doing-in-this-company giggles ensued. the way his arms fell over the armrests of his blue hair, the way he slumped in his chair in disbelief, the way his mouth was wide open and his legs were stretched out like he was ready to give up - was enough to have me in a peal of giggles.

something about his desperation cracked me up. this guy's funny.

he's been here 3 weeks and he behaves like he's been here 3 years.

some people are just so comfortable, and sincere at that.

you just don't meet people like that anymore.

and once in a while, it's good to be able to feel that maybe, there are more than just 5 of us.