Laurie,
Only you...

But we love ya anyway!
;-)

Sounds like a Worker's Comp claim to me!

White guys in Ties vs. Crazy Aunt Purl.
Damages: embarrassment, cold air and dignity

Sounds like a good case to me!!

XOXO

Hey it's monday... what did you expect?? Welcome back!

Welcome to my world...

Makes me glad for the at home crazy of children. They can't untangle me, but they can't take pictures of my clumsy either.

I'd be surprised if said co-worker will talk to you again today after being unable to take such a great pic.

Oh, yes, thank you very much. Because I can really afford to get fired for rolling around guffawing on the floor of my cubicle.

Is it time for lunch yet?

Don't lean over the shredder today. Just sayin'...

Darlin' do be careful, the microwave may be next... I'd go eat out today for lunch, just sayin'.

You CRACK ME UP! OMG - so funny! Thank you for reconsdering and documenting this for the world... we very much appreciate a little humor and patriotism today!

You are funny! I only have my two dogs to fight with in the am but I too have the desk full of papers ..... I haven't even been on vacation .... just slacking off... have a great day as they say in L.A.

I've been saying it for years, yet no one listens... refrigerators are devious appliances that are just looking for opportunities to jump us when we're not paying attention. Beware of the fridges! ;)

So, where's the picture?

I think it's so sweet that you asked your coworker if he wanted coffee and he went with you!

*giggles*

Oh man, sounds like my kind of day. At least you can laugh it off. ;)

What kind of age do we live in when people's first response to a problem is, "Let me get my digital camera!" Give that lady in the lending department a promotion.

I wouldn't have had to run for my camera, though, because I usually keep it with me. ;)

And I knew there was a reason I hated those plasticky rubbery bracelets. They are a menace to skin and sanity.

guffaw!

thank you.

I was so missing my CAP fix last week--glad you're back and that there were 3 new posts for me to read this morning! Of course, I much more glad that your Grandma is okay!

What a great way to liven up such a dismay remembrance day. Only YOU could pull such a thing off!
=:8

I am glad it is not just me!
I am thankful that Mondays are only once a week!

I am laughing so hard right now that I am bawling into my computer keyboard. LOVE IT.

Which reminds me of a story about me trying to be sexy for my poor long-suffering boyfriend last night, and I tried to step over the back of the couch (don't ask. I don't know.) and tripped and may or may not have taken out a life-sized barbie, a small basketball hoop, a lamp and 2 large tubs of toys before putting my head through the living room wall.

Lucky me, he still thinks I'm sexy, but I think he might still be laughing.

and this was 3 days ago....

I heart you. And your patriotism. (And jesus christ, if this isn't the longest comment EVER.)

Ok - I said it was last night, but it was 3 days ago. Honestly.

And now I will stop being a comment whore, and go get a Diet Coke so I can function like a normal human being.

Ok, the guy who was running to get his digital camera is an azzhat.

Another IOIO moment! IOIO = Innate Obstinacy of Inanimate Objects. I inherited the clumsy gene (we need a National Foundation!), and I am always having stuff like that happen to me. So embarrassing!

It's a solemn day. My heart hurts.

And THIS is why I brew my coffee before I leave the house. Your camera-fetching coworker deserves a slap in the face. Whatta jerk!

Oh SO funny!
Got a stack of 'to-dos' in my inbox that may represent an entire forest...
Hoping that gnomes will do it for me ;)
Glad you are free of the fridge CAP

These colors don't run, yo. They stick to your fridge.

OMG, so funny! Thank you for making what was starting out as a very solemn morning more bearable. Hmmm... you don't happen to work in the [edit edit edit] buildings do you? Cuz I do, and have said rubber bracelette on today....just waiting for a fax machine or printer to reach out and grab me! Thanks CAP!

[Um, hi from Laurie: I'm feeling weird about people posting stuff that tells stalkers where I am in a general-vicinity way! Yes, I am paranoid and weird!! Thanks! sorry for the editing!]

Thanks for the smile today Laurie!!

If you avoid the Frigidaire, the appliance win. Be brave young lass.

LMAO. Just trying to be cute and patriotic and look what it gets you. I'd check to see if any "suspicious persons" have been near your breakroom. That could have been an act of terrorism.

I tried to buy a fridge today (on my lunch hour) not a good idea! Not successful. Seems I need a survey first.

I'm sure you must want to clobber the co-worker who wanted a picture. Please stay away from all of those sneaky appliances for the rest of the day, they like to gang up on unsuspecting people.

At a Christmas banquet for my husbands company, held at a very fancy hotel, I got my floor length evening gown caught in the escalator. I was just standing there, minding my own business, and the d*** thing just sucked my dress in and kept taking more and more until someone was able to hit the emergency stop button. Maintenance came and had to take the escalator apart to free me while I held on, for dear life, to the neckline of my somewhat stretchy dress to keep it from pulling down off my boobs. Some moron took a picture and put it into the company newsletter! NOT what I had in mind for my 15 minutes of fame!

This is said with much love--you ARE crazy.

Today is a hard day for all, but specially here in NYC but you made me laugh out loud. Thank you.

I am pleased that your grandmother is doing better.

Regarding Camera Guy: how would HE feel if someone did that to him?

Who says patriotism has to be serious anyway? We are free to humiliate ourselves public whenever we like.

...while standing at a urinal???

That would SO happen to me too!

It's not nice to laugh. But I did anyway because this is *exactly* the kind of thing I would do.

This was the only real laugh I had today, so thank you. I'm sorry, but thank you.

:stifle!: ROTFL! :stifle!: Sorry, that's me trying to shush my laughter so I don't bust a gut here at the office! ~sigh~ Just what I needed to take my mind off how behind I am at work - what?!? I know I'm reading CAP's page instead of working, what's your point?

Boo Hoo, nobody gave us anything patriotic today at work and we are never allowed to bring a camera inside the building. Your job is better than mine.

OMG, this is too funny! Laurie, you are hysterical.

My Monday started off with my boss telling me she has a warrant out for her arrest because she got in a cat fight with her ex-husband's new wife over the weekend. For real y'all.

Just don't let your butt get anywhere near the photocopier!

*snort*

And said picture is posted where?!?!?! Enquiring minds want to know.

Oh dear! Laurie, you are the BEST! And I have to say, okay, I'd have given MUCH to have actually SEEN the scene that you just described...but if co-worker was too stupid to have his cell-camera on him- it;s just all our collective loss. (unlady-like snort of joyful laughter)

ROTFLMAO, to revive a term from my internet chatting days. It's true, techmology is out to get you. Thank goodness dear co-worker (DC?) didn't get you on film..er..digits.

OK. So I'm mean but all I could think was, "What? No photo? But I needed to see a photo of that..."

It was gnomes, wasn't it? Gnomes inside the refrigerator, in a frenzy to grab your patriotic items for themselves.

Too funny. Would have loved to have seen the digital pic of that. Now there's no way to prove your story is realy true! ;-)

Welcome back!

my my my them free things=danger.
careful going up the stairs today. best to sit and sort desk
You could clickie clickie the new knitty for fall, so you don't.(fall that is)

So sorry for the humiliation, but thanks very much for sharing! The cats all looked up to see what I was laughing at... Mondays, you've got to love 'em!

Laurie, do you knit inside a plastic bubble. I mean, really, how do you not get the needles stuck in the couch cushions and the yarn wrapped around the coat hangers in the closet.

Ahhh well, we still love ya!

best way to start this day EVER! OMG that's funny. I knew there was a reason I stay away from free "jewlery!"

Oh, Laurie, we must have the same gene of doom! My many embarrassing workplace moments include walking into my own cubicle walls (who put that there?), tripping and stepping into my trash can, and rolling my chair wheels over the very full and long skirt of my dress and having to call a co-worker to free me. Fortunately, the older I get, the less embarrassed I am. :o)

I always avoid major appliances before am coffee. It's an unwritten law.

ROFLMAO! Oh, Laurie...Thank you so much, I *really* needed a good laugh today after some bad news last night. Really. Thanks for posting, and my sympathies for hand-in-fridge syndrome, etc. (I also tend to experience that sort of thing. Or something equally embarrassing, not necessarily involving appliances, on a regular basis.) Thanks to the others who've matched your story in the comments, too.

And very glad to hear your Grandma's doing better, hope things stay that way.

My friend Danny died on Flight 11. And even aside from that, I still find myself dissecting my life into PRE-9/11 and POST-9/11, because that's when it all seemed to change. So I am very happy to bring a smile to anyone's face today!

What a hard day.

Oooooh! Where can I get a blue rubber bracelet with white stars on it?

In two separate incidents, two different co-workers at two different places pulled the same embarrasing stunt.

Both guys were standing in front of a trash barrel telling an amusing story. One knocked his pipe on the side of the barrel to empty it. The other dumped some chemical-laden paper in the barrel.

I tried to tell them at the smoke-coming-out-of-the-barrel stage, and both told me not to interrupt. When they were done, they both asked me what I wanted to say, and, of course, by then they had a good blaze going.

It was fun to watch them jump.

So, does this make you feel any better?

Laurie - sounds like the kind of thing that would happen to me. Only I'd be standing there laughing hysterically. And would no doubt still be laughing when the co-worker did show up with the camera. On the other hand...if I was the co-worker, I just might have run for the camera myself...(Okay, I'd say I needed to get my camera, but I would have freed you without getting a picture, because I'm nice like that).

I have never read anyone online whose humor and personality seemed to match so perfectly to the T-Rex in Dinosaur Comics over at qwantz.com. You're hilarious and it's a pleasure reading.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the much needed laugh this morning (that, or I'll be forced to consume the entire package of individual-sized chocolate puddings that may or may not have been intended for the kids). Family is visiting, and some stress-relief was definitely necessary. Your story is a good start to my day before they show up from the hotel.

Love the coworker's reaction, by the way. Too funny.

*warm virtual hug*

Please re-enact scene at fridge and post photo.

Good call on strategic avoidance of all appliances for the rest of the day!

Hope the day improved! Or, if it didn't, that we'll get some more good stories out of it...

That was a hilarious story.

But I am so sorry to hear that 9/11 has such horrible personal significance for you. . . Many hugs for you, sweetie.

that's why i think patriotism is dangerous.

yes, i agree with "another laurie"--patriotism is very dangerous. beware of those bracelets and pins. they call out to other appliances and think you should become one of them. like how the Deceptacons want to kill all of the Transformers! aaaack! :o)did you ever watch that cartoon as a kid? i can't wait till it comes out in theaters. anyway, i'm glad you're okay. i hope your Tuesday is much better.

Hm, I think I would have paid to see that? Perhaps today will be better?

I would really liked to have seen the picture. :)

those darn fridges... they're sneaky little buggers arent' they? so glad you're back. thanks for cracking me up this morning! :)

No more blogad space for sale?

When refrigerators attack...

But the best part is your continuing to talk while your arm is immobilized inside the frig - I do that kind of thing all the time! Wouldn't want to interrupt the conversation when hey, my arm isn't even numb yet :)

Hey sweetie,

I had no idea that you lost someone on 9.11. My brother used to take Flight 93 from NYC to San Francisco first thing in the morning when he visited my family in NYC. When I saw the horrible news that morning I tried desperately to call my parents (who lived in the NYC vicinity). I knew that George had plans to fly and visit them but I wasn't sure if it had been the weekend before the 11th or after. There was a possibility that he could have been on that plane. All the circuits to NYC and the West Coast were messed up and it was a while before I reached my brother, thankfully at home in bed in SF.

I worked a mile or so from the WTC center before my kids were born. It took a long time before the shock of it all wore off. I couldn't believe what was happening in the city where I married my husband and had my kids. We both had family who worked all over NYC as well. Five years later it's still so awful.

I'm so sorry for your loss. I hope you're feeling better today.

Love, Liz

Laurie - Thanks for your reply to my earlier post. Believe me; you made a difference. And hugs for you and Danny...

And just when you think you've seen it all... ROTFL

I wish your co-worker was faster! Sorry, but I seriously do!

Much Love, Laurie!

I like the part where you drank all the coffee, best.

SNAKES IN A FRIDGE, Girl!

Just how are we sure those lights go off when the fridge door is shut???

Sorry to ask you this...people are getting worried about Drew....if you talk to him let him know that...

Thanks for cheering up my morning, Laurie! I am a bit disappointed that you were rescued so quickly. I mean, it would've been a hoot to see you magnetized to the fridge. Of course I'm not a complete hag, I'm glad that you got your morning coffee. Mmmm...coffee...haven't had mine this morning...must go now...

Hoping the day got better!
Mia

Ah, it was fun to read that after all the (understandably) morbid 9/11 memorial posts I've encountered. No frost bite, I trust.