meganbmoore | (no subject)

Actual conversation at work:

(context: we have new clients, and they got everyone small trophies* that basically said "Thanks for working for us!")

COWORKER: Getting this trophy makes me feel like Homer!

ME: *blank stare* *tries to think how this could relate to a guy who's been dead a few thousand years*

COWORKER: It's like getting a reward for nothing!

ME: Oh, Homer simpson?

COWORKER: Well...yeah.

ME: I thought you meant the Greek writer.

COWORKER: Who?

ME: He wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey.

COWORKER: *blank stare* Yeah, I just like getting things.

*A coworker commented on the trophies having actual marble bases and my immediate thought was "That will be the murder weapon!" and then I reminded myself that my life was not a mystery novel.)