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Day-Glo Orange Means CRAZY!
By matt | August 25, 2008
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Funny Story…
One day at work, I was leading a working meeting. It was productive with lots of good discussion and time spent at the whiteboard writing down process maps and other corporate stuff. I had called the meeting, so I stayed at the whiteboard to record what people were saying, asked leading questions and tried to be a good meeting facilitator — keeping the meeting focused without being directive.
Everybody was in a really good mood. The meeting came up with a bunch of good ideas. I was feeling pretty smug because there had originally been some resistance to the meeting. It was a “process mapping” meeting, so I don’t blame them.
When we were done, I took my notes to my desk to type up to send out. I sat down and noticed that my fly was down. All the way to the bottom of the zipper. The fly was D-O-W-N.
But that’s not all!
There is a brand of underwear that puts two conservative, normal pairs on the outside of the package and something completely outrageous between the normal pairs. Because of the way the goods are packed (heh!), you can’t see between the conservative pairs. It could be bright colors, crazy patterns, bright colored crazy patterns or worse. But hey, when you find a brand that accommodates whatcha got, you stick with that brand…crazy colors and all.
On that fateful day, I was sporting a pair that was bright orange stripes on a baby blue background. The orange was like the color of a push-up ice cream treat. Day-Glo. The blue was the sky on a perfectly clear day at noon.
There is no way that it could have been missed, given the charcoal gray pants I was wearing. Every once and awhile, there must have been a little flash of neon orange and bright blue. I hope is was infrequent.
Danger! the orange must have said. This man is crazy. Do what he tells you.
Even now, all I can say is “Thank god the fly buttoned shut.”
Topics: economics & business |
August 26th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Oh my. I bet that was a fun meeting to be a part of!!
My boss (a large booming kind of guy with sexist tendancies) has a really bad habit of leaving his fly open. I have no idea how to tell him this.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Erin - anonymous note to the boss. Unless you enjoy the view. Then just sit back and let the show begin.
August 26th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
I am laughing so hard I want to cry. I’m so sorry I missed that one. Thanks for the comic relief.
August 26th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Thanks for the laugh!
August 27th, 2008 at 8:20 am
So first you are perusing the casual encounters section of Craigslist and now you’re exposing yourself to co-workers… I worry, that’s all…