The Office is Joy-ful Again!
Joy of joys, Joy is back from her vacation and once again manning (womaning?) the reception desk at work. She has a wonderful sense of humor and I love talking to her. She also likes my sense of humor — or at least that’s what she says when she isn’t rolling her eyes.
Today I came from my desk with blood oozing out of my thumb. I said to Joy, “Did you know you aren’t supposed to staple your thumb?” She said she did know that. I walked away grumbling, “Why is it nobody ever tells me these things and lets me find out the hard way?” Joy’s laughter followed me down the hall.
Later, when I was all band-aided and no longer posed a rosy-red threat to the AP checks, I passed Joy’s desk on my way back from the copy machine. Rye was there with her.  I stopped. I looked at Rye and pointed at Joy. “This is Joy,” I said. Then I looked at Joy and pointed at Rye. “This is Yoj,” I said. Rye nodded.
As I walked away I heard Joy say, “Yoj?” And Rye answered, “Uhm. Joy backward. That’s my name when I sit here.”
Joy said — in that tone that questions one’s sanity — “Ooookay.”
I backed up two steps so I could look around the corner and see Joy. “I heard that!” I said. “And I am not silly.”
“So you say,” Joy answered.
I’m still contemplating what she meant by that.
13 Comments
ylliuQ ~ won i teg ti.
lliB
I wish I worked with a joy. I swear, the sense of humor is seriously lacking where I work.
Heehee!!
Have a great New Year, see you around in 2009!
iH!
loved Bill’s comment.
Happy New Year, quilly, may 2009 bring you nothing but the t.s.e.b.
🙂
I think I need to be back in an office… with a Quilly, a Joy, and a Rye….
I start work in an office on Monday with a Debbie, a Lesley and a June, I wonder if any of them will be a joy to work with.
Happy New Year, Quilly. I’m so glad to have met you this year 🙂
I wish you a happy New Year Ylliuq !
pleased as a punchline that your office is joy-full and yoj-full!
May 2009 overflow with hue-more! Best wishes,
a relatively new color-full friend
Everyone needs a little Joy in their life, and an A/P person who hasn’t had a humorectomy is a fine and rare thing too.
Happy New Year
Our office is often inhabited by a Bob. He’s the same no matter which way you spell him. We also have a Cliff- sometimes we’d like to throw him over.
I have a Barb on my bus- she most assuredly is…
Happy New Year to you!
That must be a really great place to work.
a joy-full office must be a good thing!
happy new year, my friend! (i have no idea what i’m doing up at this hour – we’re already 2.20h into 2009)
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