Here’s What I’m Working With
A week before #3 started, she came to “scope out” her new “office”. She poked through the drawers of one of the desks, looked at how much hanging space there was for her plants, etc. She even looked at other offices for something bigger. Did I mention that our workspaces are shared?
She started bringing in her crap to pile on the table and to take up shelf space. She brought in plants to put in the window. We have an 18″~24″ window ledge. She asked, “do you like my plants?”
“I don’t like where they are,” was my response, “they’ll be in the way when it gets hot in here and we open the window.”
Thinking I meant sometime next summer, she replied that she would move them at that time. A few days later it was hot enough to open the window. There was a stuffed parrot that looked like it was flying against the wind right in the window opening. A chinese evergreen strained against the outward rush before finally succumbing to the torrent of wind and leaped out the window to the parking lot a full story below. Alas, I did not see it, but was close enough to hear the, “oh, no!” as she attempted to save the plant – fingers only grasping the rushing wind.
