Sometimes I act weird.
Even at work.
I’m an IT Manager and when called to someones desk for help, I like to stand with chest puffed out and hands on hips like I’m superman or something. Yeah, I know…I’m a geek.
So the other day I was standing in the doorway of a co-worker’s office in the aforementioned stance. She says to me, “So where’s your cape?”
“Today’s laundry day,” I reply. “Crystal’s washing it for me today.”
We get a chuckle and that’s the end of the first part of the story.
About a week later my co-workers are standing outside smoking and I decide that I could use some socializing so I go stand outside to chit-chat with them while they fumigate their lungs. I decide to stand in my super-pose again…I don’t know why. Remember – I’m a geek. So the previously mentioned co-worker is there and says, “is your cape STILL in the laundry?” and I said, “what, you think I only ever wear it at work?”
We chuckle and then I said “you watch, I’ll come to work one day wearing a cape.”
She says “will you put a giant I.T. on the cape?”
“On the CAPE??? No! On my chest…like superman!”
Another lady in the group chimes in and says, “it?”
I explain, “I.T. – Information Technology”
“I know,” she says “But that’s what people will think when they see you. It?”
I get clever. “Well, I COULD title myself Super Human Information Technology.”
No laughter. They didn’t get it.
I had to explain it.
Then they laughed because it was VERY funny.
Maybe you had to be there.