A Random Essay by me, Misha @randomlymisha
My co-workers are like cats. "How are they like cats?" you ask. "Do they lick themselves clean and sleep in the sun? They don't poo in a box, do they? 'Cuz that would be gross."
Yes, that would be disgusting. That is not how my co-workers are like cats, however.
They are like cats because you need to be filming them 24/7 because they do such amusing stuff and it's nothing you can really describe to anyone you have to be able to show them (the imaginary people you're talking to in this scenario, not that the people are imaginary, it's the scenario that's imaginary) a video.
"What the hell are you talking about?" you ask.
That's an excellent question. I often ask myself that. Let me give you an example.
A perfect example of how my co-workers are like cats:
Daniel needed a broom. He looked in the janitor's closet. No broom. He asked Lisa. She told him to look in the janitor's closet. (She didn't know he'd already been in there.) He wanted to ask Debra, but he couldn't find her. Daniel eventually found Debra and asked her where he could find a broom. She told him. He hurried to the spot she said.
Which is how I was walking behind Daniel and suddenly heard him exclaim, "Broom!" as tho' it were a child who had wandered away at the mall and security were able to reunite the family. Joy and relief.
"Broom!"
And my description does not, could never ever ever accurately portray the moment.
Just like when a cat matrixes off a wall onto a couch only to then fall off the armrest.
Or when a kitten chases a firefly around a room on a sultry July night and you turn off of the lights and enjoy the show for just a couple of minutes before saving the bug and sending it back outside (where it's probably eaten by an owl or a bat but you don't see that part happen just the Kodak commercial of lively kitten antics).
Or when a cat "helps" make a bed.
See? We've all seen those short videos so many times I don't have to say anything more than that one short sentence with the irony quote marks.
And if I had film or even just a 5-second sound clip of "Broom!" it would quickly become as iconic as a cat "helping" its owner make the bed. But I don't follow my co-workers with cameras and voice recorders.* So y'all miss this great stuff and have to settle for my poor attempts at describing the indescribable.
And that is why my co-workers are like cats. They're funny, often unintentionally, and they brighten, at least briefly, a long-ass day.
*The library does have many security cameras, so technically there is video of Daniel's quest for a broom. But there's no sound, so you wouldn't get the really funny bit even if I could share the security footage. Altho' I'm sure if we sped up the video, Daniel's back and forth through all of the library would look like an old Keystone Kops bit. If we made our's olde-timey black-and-white. You know what I mean.
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