2 Out Of 10

My Dear Princess and Dear Fellow,

Briar came into the office today. She does not normally appear on a Thursday due to uni obligations but the restructure rumbles on and there was a big important meeting she had to attend.

Olivia was concerned. She arranged for a special coffee afterward so we could support Briar. 

But Briar was stoic. "Eehhhhh... we're going to lose two BA's from my team of sixteen," she explained with a shrug. "It is what it is."

"I wish I hadn't bothered coming in for just that," she went on. "Two out of ten."

"TWO?" asked Olivia.

"I'm being kind," replied Briar. 

The South Africans were also resigned. Lee-Ann and Fazzy explained to me that South Africans have a DARK sense of humour. Fazzy told me that she had told Shahier that he was shuffling along like an old man - like his DAD - a few days prior.

Shahier - whose father has just had one of his legs amputated below the knee - immediately replied, "Not any more!"

Then he caught himself and was horrified. "Too soon?" he asked.

"South Africans never ask if it is too soon," said Lee-Ann. "My middle name should be 'Too Soon'."

She told me how she and her two daughters find it hysterically funny that her husband has broken one of his fingers. It started innocuously enough. 

"I couldn't find the words," she told me. "So instead of saying his finger was broken I just said his - "

- and her she did a mime of a person holding one finger up like a sad little claw - 

" - was broken."

This quickly became a thing. And soon Lee-Ann and her daughters were talking about the <mime> every five minutes and exploding with laughter.

"It got so bad that Preston had to leave the room," she said apologetically but not really. 

Fazzy then started in on ME. I am like sport to her now. I told her that I'd come to see her, with my "walls down" and that I wished to be "open" and "vulnerable" and...

"Penis," she replied*. 

I nearly spit out my coffee. Seriously. She should have been DRENCHED.

So it was a ten out of ten from me today. 

S. 

* Flashback to yesterday. In case you had forgotten.