i really enjoy working where i do.  to-day i was officially ‘accepted’ by my co-workers.  first i made the cool sign, to-day i sent a funny email, to the whole department.  i was replying to the mass email sent by my department head inviting everyone in the department to a cool swim party.  this is my reply:

 i am in so long as Tony does not wear that thong he was talking about last week.  only because i want to be the only guy with a thong on.

billy

well, naturally i did not tell anyone about it- but then the roars of laughter came in.  tony- only because of age, should never wear a thong.   not that men need to wear them anyways- regardless of how accepting your culture is of them.   but then i received some great replies:

You mean Kevin & I acctualy have competition now?  (kevin and tony are the office bad ass guys.  boy- they have no clue!  i am still new, it will get much worse.)

Spoken like a true smart ass.   (my department head)

people stopped doing what work they were currently on only to tell tony how they felt about him in a thong.  poor guy.  even worse because i do not really know him all that well.

he tried to get back at me a little later in the day with a zinger.  i took monday off due to a sister’s wedding.  but, instead of asking how it went, tony asked, ‘hey bill, so what did the urologist say the problem was on monday?’  he must have told everyone that he was going to ask me because they all looked at me- so i gave the best answer i could think of.  ‘he said it was the biggest he has seen in quite some time.’

that was followed with more laughter.  just hope the thong shows it.  HA! the sign