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Coworker: "What's that on your neck?"
Me: "Uh... a necklace."
Coworker: "Oh."

It's exactly this kind of compliment that makes me glad to be a girl.

Date: 2006-01-25 04:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chuckro.livejournal.com
Male coworker, then?

Date: 2006-01-25 04:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ivy03.livejournal.com
That would be a yes. A married male coworker. I feel bad for his wife.

Date: 2006-01-25 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chuckro.livejournal.com
Well, he obviously doesn't buy her jewelry. On the plus side, with fashion sense like that, I doubt she has to worry about him being gay.

Date: 2006-01-25 07:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jethrien.livejournal.com
"It's a high-tech weapon that allows me to project an electric magnetic bubble around myself and then pulse it outwards, which destroys all circuitry in a three block radius and scrambles the nerves of any living creatures within three feet of me. One of my friends who works for the NSA loaned it to me. Isn't it pretty?"

Date: 2006-01-25 07:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ivy03.livejournal.com
And if only I'd been able to come up with that on the spot.

Ah, l'esprit de l'escalier.

Date: 2006-01-25 07:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jethrien.livejournal.com
Oh, I came up with the idea immediately. But that doesn't mean that I would have been able to rattle it off in a coherent fashion.

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