Will Anyone Miss Me?

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

The countdown to the "move" is coming to an end.  As I am doing ordinary tasks I find myself thinking that "This is the last time I will do this for a while or ever."  For instance, at lunch today I walked down to the end of the strip mall to my favorite pawn shop.  OK, it is really the only pawn shop that I have even been in so the has to qualify it as my favorite I guess but it really is enjoyable to wander around the store.  In the middle of the shop, there is a large section devoted to used CDs.  For some reason I derive pleasure in flipping through countless stacks of CDs.  Since today might be the last time I ever go there, I purchased all the CDs that I thought I might want.  At $2 per CD I can afford to make a few mistakes.  I won't bore you with the list of CDs that I purchased (and it might even make you think less of me if I did, I will admit to buying an old Richard Marx CD though).

Anyway, as I wander around the workplace, I wonder if any of these people will miss me.  I don't really interact with anyone in the building on work related issues.  All my teammates work in other towns and I rarely see them.  I have a few people that I talk to while getting coffee or while coming in or out of the building.  All in all though, I could probably disappear without anyone knowing it.  In my own row of cubes no one is particularly social.  The guy I pass by everyday (for the last 8 months) has never said more than 5 words total to me.  I tried to strike up a conversation one day.  He has this calendar in his cube.  It has been on the same month since the day I moved into the cube.  It has a scene of a golf green with a little mist / fog in the background with the sun just rising.  I have seen this picture over 100 times now.  I tried to strike up a conversation one day and said, "So, do you really like that picture or do you just really like the month of March 2004?"  I thought it was a funny statement that deserved to be the start of a "get to know each other" conversation.  He looked at me blankly for a few seconds, glanced at the calendar, then glanced back at me and said, "the picture."  Then he turned his back to me and went back to his computer.

But he is actually 2 words ahead of the other guy in the cube across from me.  These guys and I at least have one thing in common, no one would miss them if they were gone either.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon