Thursday, July 21, 2011

Some People Just Don't Get It

So I'm at work this evening, and Scrawny Mike is describing his latest illness/food poisoning to another coworker in enough detail that I can't actually pay attention to what I'm supposed to be doing. And the whole time I'm thinking "well, at least he's not talking about video games".

You see where this is going.

Things started to take a downturn when he said "Yesterday I felt so bad I couldn't even play games."

At that point I was still hoping he might get distracted and talk at greater length about how his vomiting woke up the entire household, but no...

"Actually, I was playing Portal when I first got sick."

And then, the person he was talking to asked what level he was on and it was all over.

I give up.

6 comments:

Eric said...

Have you heard of aversion therapy? Maybe what you should do is get your own copy of Portal and play it until you vomit too.

Theresa B (of Nebulopathy) said...

You need to go back to your Psych 101 books. I'm not the one that needs aversion therapy. One might think that other people puking while they're playing might make them less likely to play, but sadly it doesn't seem to have worked.

Eric said...

Ah, you're right. What I meant was "systematic desensitization".

Theresa B (of Nebulopathy) said...

It's not working...

Karen said...

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

(your blog posts about work and your work environs are my favorite ones)

Theresa B (of Nebulopathy) said...

I'm just going to make a broad, sweeping (and very sexist) statement here and claim that only guys can talk about something like video games for any length of time.

(It's for the same reason that if you listen to a conversation between two total strangers, if they are women the conversation will be about something that actually happened or about someone that exists in the real world, and if they are men it will be about some gadget or taxes.)

Anyhow, I can't talk about work too much since, you know, there's that whole trade secret thing. Not that I know any secrets, but I do try to be careful.

You, however, should have some good stories to share...