Office Olympics
Jun 15, 2006
I once worked in an extremely stressful office. Some of our best distractions from the insanity were our random office adventures. My personal favorite diversion was the chair race.
For the unfamiliar, chair races incorporate one passenger (who remains seated in the rolling office chair) and one driver (who pushes the chair as fast as he/she can.) These races involved an intricate course - down the long aisle, hard right at the last cubicle, counterclockwise around the finance block by the big windows, past the break room with the leaky water dispenser and across the finish line by the restrooms.
My cubicle was part of a four-cube pod that I shared with three colleagues (math degree finally pays off!) Anyway, someone across the room announced a race. In my excitement, I pushed back from my desk WITH FORCE. My rolling chair did not roll, as one might expect.
Nope. Next thing I knew, I was ass over teakettle, laying on the floor with my feet in the air. In a skirt that was suddenly showing more skin than is appropriate at the office. Right in the middle of the pod for all to see. Cue the roaring laughter.
And that's how I won the Office Olympics.
