Sunday, May 9, 2010

Some People Have High Expectations...

I fix things. That's what I do. When it comes right down to it, that's what I'm good at.

However, some people have rather inflated ideas of what I can accomplish.

For example, somebody (I still don't know who) left this on my desk at work last week.




Yes, it's a dying tulip plant with a post-it note that says "Help Me".

Sometimes you have to wonder...

4 comments:

Eric said...

Oh my God. That's funny. If only they'd known about the heart biopsy dog.

Theresa B (of Nebulopathy) said...

I feel the need to reiterate that that dog lived...

A Free Man said...

So, they didn't touch much on botany in vet school?

Theresa B (of Nebulopathy) said...

Not a whole heck of a lot. However, my ability to keep plants alive at work is probably above average. In this case, I think the thing is suffering from severe over-watering, lack of light, and then just the fact that it's a bulb which dies back every year.

I figure I'll dump it in the ground near the daffodils in front of my house, and maybe I'll have tulips next year.

But really, it's all just the same thing in reverse:

light + water + CO2 -> sugar + O2 if you're a plant

sugar + O2 -> water + CO2 + energy if you're an animal

So by that token, as long as I don't biopsy anything, it should be okay.