Blog Number 162

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

I am trying very hard to act more professional at work.  The key word here is "act".  I fear it is just that, an act.  Just when I think I am getting it together (e.g. wearing a tie to work) something happens to remind me that I still have a ways to go.

I park in a huge parking garage.  There are probably 4 levels and I usually park just as you get to level 2.  There is a spot that is usually open at around 8 AM when I arrive and it is pretty close to the stairs to the third level (which corresponds to the first floor of the actual building I work in).  Given that I usually listen to music on the way to work and given that there are great acoustics in the garage, I tend to sing a song (that I was listening to on the way to work) on the way to the building.  It does not matter the genre really (pop, rock, metal, 80's, etc.) I am "singing" it.  Yesterday I was listening to an artist knows as Klank.  Klank is industrial dance metal (or something like that).  At any rate, it is not suitable to be "singing" Klank on your way into work.

As I left the acoustics of the garage and walked the last 100 yards or so to the building I heard a noise behind me.  I must first tell you that for the last 100 yards, the path is made up of red brick.  Since there are many people that have laptop carrying cases with wheels, it is not uncommon to see people coming into work pulling these things behind them.  As with anything on wheels that is being pulled over brick, it makes a particular noise.  I have heard this noise 100 times at least and it is particularly annoying to tell you the truth.  I mean, Come On!  Pick up the carrying case when you are making a racket like this!  You can carry your 7 lbs laptop for 100 yards, I know you can.

Anyway, I hear this "lazy person dragging laptop over brick" noise behind me but when I first heard it I did not think it was a laptop case making the sound.  Nope, me in all my professionalism, as I am walking into my professional job, going to my professional cube am thinking only one thing, "Who is riding a skateboard to work?"  I spin around quickly to see who would be doing this and there is this lady simply pulling her laptop case behind her.  She was looking down at the moment so she did not see the quickness of my turning nor the look on my face as I realized how silly it was of me to think such a thing.

So I turned back around and headed into work, attempting to "act" professional the rest of the day.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon