There are day’s when so much laughter abounds that my sides hurt. Earlier today, while at work, one of the gals used a bowl that had been left there to heat up her top ramin. Now mind you, she was thorough in cleaning it first.
She heated her soup, ate it and then a half hour later began second-guessing if it had been such a good idea to have eaten out of a bowl that anything could have been in. One thing led to another, and before long, she had herself worked up, imagining that a rat might have crawled through the bowl, gone to the bathroom in it, and now she was going to get ill.
Normally, this co-worker isn’t paranoid about her health, so her reaction was out of character. Another girlfriend and I tried to calm her nerves, but everything we said only made matters worse. Before long, our friend was looking up symptoms of rat poop ingestion on the Internet. That got my other friend and I to laughing, as we told her she overreacting.
This, our co-worker being freaked out and us trying to calm her while laughing in between, lasted for almost two hours. Finally, we explained that she’d be fine because she most likely ingests rat feces on a regular basis. That the FDA allows such to be included in some foods.
Ew!
Our co-worker looked up this fact online and believe it or not, when she read that what we’d told her was true, she felt instantly relieved. Not sure why, but this put my other friend and I into fits of laughter. Here, we’d spent time trying to persuade her that she’d be fine, that all would be okay, that she probably hadn’t ingested any rat feces. To all this, our co-worker had balked, maintaining that she would get terribly ill. Then, as soon as she read that the FDA allows for consumers to ingest rat feces in some foods, her mind was instantly put at ease.
Go figure!
I’ve gotta say, those two hours spent laughing and trying to calm our co-worker were the highlight of my day.
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