me: How is life on the east coast?
SageOne: extremely busy at the moment
him: how about the west side?
me: It smells like popcorn
me: Although I do believe it is a local phenomenon
him: why's that?
me: Specific to my building, in fact.
him: really
him: that's strange
him: very strange
me: It's really not that strange. The lunch room is located one floor directly below us.
him: i see
me: And based on the degree of burndedness (yes, that's a word), I would say someone decided that 10 minutes is an appropriate length of time to pop popcorn.
him: nice. burnt?
me: Yup. The odor has lingered for more than 2 3 hours now
I don't know what's worse. The yummy smell of popcorn that makes me want to eat bags and bags of it, or the yuck smell of burnt popcorn. Burnt popcorn is one of the toughest odors to ignore.
This was almost as bad as the day that one of the "talent" decided to cook (and burn to bits) ONSTAGE some beans he was making for a potluck*. For the next 5 hours, the soundstage (and our connecting offices) smelled like burning sewage*.
I kept having to "go on walks" to keep from hurling all over my desk. It is messy enough as it is.
Posted by jozjozjoz at January 15, 2004 12:52 PMlast job i had, we were not allowed to pop popcorn, nuke fish or any food that contained garlic in it, due to the odoriferousness (which is definitely a word) of said food...mainly cuz alot of big wig clients were brought through there often and they didn't want them to be offended by the odor of our food...or something like that ;)
Posted by: azure at January 15, 2004 02:10 PMWe often microwave popcorn but one time I think we bought some bad batch and everytime we popped one in the microwave, the place started smelling like someone pee'd profusely all over the place. IMHO, popcorn should be microwaved for approximately 4 minutes on the highest setting.
Posted by: kinkoman at January 15, 2004 02:29 PM
I don't get the whole eating popcorn at work thing. I swear people never used to do that. Now I'm lucky if I can get through an entire week without having to smell the pungent odour of flavoured popcorn. Sadly, I'm right next to the microwave.
I'm hoping it'll give me superpowers one day, but so far, nothing.
Posted by: Pie at January 15, 2004 01:29 PM