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Monday, January 16, 2012

Mercury How Much of a Dick Am I About to Be?

Posted by Bobby Roberts on Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:58 AM

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Someone has brought this formidable bag full of salt-water taffy into the office, and deposited it in the breakroom, from whence it sings a siren song of taffy-temptation. It sings this song for me. I can pretend like I'm going to hold out, but that is what's known in the scientific community as "horseshit." I will succumb, and I will at some point begin pounding these sticky treats down my face with reckless abandon, horking back delicious bits of candy and my own fillings into my waiting gullet.

So here's the question: On the "You're a giant dick" scale of office behaviors, where does "Eating nothing but the chocolate ones and leaving a bag full of lemon and mint flavors" rank?

For reference, "Leaving less than a teaspoon of a co-worker's clearly labeled coffee creamer in the fridge for them" is a solid 8, whereas "Microwaving your kimchi in an open container" is a 6.

 

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Just like the accidentally purchased sugar free Easter bunnies I found in my kitchen cabinets in the fall and brought in, I know that once it hits that table, SOMEONE in this office will have a desperate enough moment to eat it. That taffy is from a trip to the coast New Year's Day, so you are no more a dick for eating it as I am for bringing in candy of questionable freshness just to get it out of my house. Eat up!
Posted by Tonya on January 16, 2012 at 10:30 AM · Report
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God no one cares.
Posted by tcraighenry on January 16, 2012 at 11:06 AM · Report
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Not half as much of a dick as the person who put the lemon flavored ones in the bag to begin with...
Posted by Tommy on January 17, 2012 at 5:00 AM · Report

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