In which you should admit right away why you want to borrow my mirrorApril 23rd, 2008 @ 7:01 am
A guy in my office came into my cubicle yesterday and asked if I had a mirror he could borrow.
Being the good girl that I am, I have no less then three compact sized mirrors located in different places throughout my cubicle. But also being the suspicious girl that I am, I was quite confident I didn’t want this guy taking any of my mirrors with him into the bathroom to get a closer look at any of his hard to reach places.
And so I lied.
“No, I don’t have a mirror. Sorry about that.”
I turned back to face my computer screen and tried to get the mental images of this old guy and his hard to reach places out of my mind.
I heard him making his way down the hall to all the other cubicle dwellers, asking them if they had a mirror he could borrow. I was relieved that nobody did. I mean, come on, wait until you get home and use your own mirror and your own bathroom.
It wasn’t until later that day when he told me he needed the mirror to get a better look at the outlet under his desk.
On right, that makes more sense.
What’s wrong with me that I automatically assumed he would be using my mirror inappropriately?
I blame my childhood.
Did you remember to set your VCR/DVR/TiVo to record “The Tonight Show” tomorrow night?* The Old 97’s will be preforming to promote their new album “Blame it on Gravity”, which is coming out on my birthday. You won’t want to miss this!
*I’m recording both the regular episode and the HD one. Dude, you know Rhett Miller’s going to look extra hott in High Def.
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Audrey
said,
April 23, 2008 at 5:50 pm
If he needed the mirror for something so innocent, why didn’t he just say so? I would have phrased the request like this: “Hola, Isabel! I need to get a better look at the outlet under my desk. Do you have a mirror I can borrow?”
Then again, if I were in your shoes being asked that question, I may have wondered if “the outlet under my desk” was code for “my hard to reach places.”
Either way, good call on not giving him the mirror.
heidikins
said,
April 23, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Maybe your co-worker is one of those total exhibitionist sickos, and what he really means when he says “I want to get a better look at the outlet under my desk” he really is going to be looking at his “hard to reach places” WHILE AT HIS DESK!
The world is full of freaks. (And, as evidenced by my spectacular leap in logic -see above, I am not at all freaky.)
xox
Rhi
said,
April 23, 2008 at 6:43 pm
For some reason, this reminds me of living in the Freshman dorms at UO and having one of the boys come upstairs (the actual boy that my roommate Elise had a crush on) and ask us if he could have a few cotton PADS not balls. PADS. It was then that I told Elise that she’d better get a crush on someone else because he was gay. The end.
Sparkle Pants
said,
April 23, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I have just newly discovered Rhett Miller.
Nic
said,
April 23, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Outlet can mean a lot of things.
sizzle
said,
April 23, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Thanks for reminding me about the Old 97s! I will set my dvr.
I have a coworker who is always coming into my cubicle to borrow my mirror. You’d think after the 100th time she’d realize she needs a mirror in her own cubicle.
Abbie
said,
April 23, 2008 at 8:49 pm
lol, that’s cus that’s what you would do with a mirror. Talk about behavioral projections…
SJ
said,
April 23, 2008 at 11:04 pm
I will be watching! Or recording if I can’t watch! And um, a dude…asking for a mirror? I would have asked him straight out what it was for!
Kelly
said,
April 24, 2008 at 12:01 am
HA! This reminds me of when a guy at the TV station asked to borrow my eyeliner. And I said I didn’t have any more… which duh! Of course I had some. I just didn’t want to share makeup, and especially not with a dude! (Of course I should mention that he was an on-air guy who had to wear makeup on camera, not just a makeup-enjoying male)
May
said,
April 24, 2008 at 2:59 am
My co-worker would always ask for tewasers. TWEASERS!!! That is definitely an at-home grooming task…
May
said,
April 24, 2008 at 3:00 am
Oh yeah, and my co-worker was a guy. If it were a girl, It’d at least have a CHANCE to be for something not gross…
Operation Pink Herring
said,
April 24, 2008 at 3:26 am
What is wrong with me? I honestly can’t think of one gross thing to do with a mirror. I would just have assumed he wanted to check his combover or make sure he didn’t have poppy seeds in his teeth or something. Clearly, my imagination needs a workout!
Casey
said,
April 25, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Wow, I must not be too sharp because I never in ten million years would’ve thought a male would ask to use my mirror for looking *there*. I would find it strange to have a man make the request but other than that I wouldn’t put any thought into it. Now that I know this, no male will ever get to use my mirror unless he specfies why he needs it, LOL. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t want a woman looking *there* with my mirror, either. Good thing I don’t even carry a mirror!