on receiving an unusual compliment....

I just received an unusal compliment this morning. There I was, trying hard no to fall asleep at my workstation, listening to my 3^rd sermon in the office. Along came my colleague, who’s an Afro-American, bigger than me, in both size and stature. Whereupon standing at my cubicle, he issued forth, in a booming sonorous voice*, “Jack, you freaked my wife out… (I was thinking in my heart at that point, “Oh shit, shit, shit, how did I offend the missus???”)  She thinks you’re the best thing since sliced bread.”

 

Seeing my mystified expression**, he proceeds to explain that he was paying me a compliment, just saying I was “neat”. After hearing that, I looked down at the sheaves of paper that was strewn over one half of my workstation. Again I was stumped. Finally, my colleague had to say, “She think’s you’re okay.” And then the light hit, and enlightenment came***. I tried to recover with a weak “Oh. Yea. Right. I was still thinking whether did I sliced anything this week or not... mumble mumble…”

 

 

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*His voice is one of the nicest I’ve ever heard, as he has experience in radio broadcasting before.

 

** I was wondering how come he never proceeded to plummet the breath out of me, after saying I “freaked out his wife.”

 

*** plus I was giving thanks that ok, he’s not gonna pummel me… :p