Today was the day we signed up for the next BNL cruise. Specifically, I was scheduled to sign up at 2:00 Central time. I couldn’t sign up at work because TeddyJ has us locked in to the Amish Internet. (For example, you can’t get to this very blog. Prudes! My boss explained they look for certain words and lock out that content. I assumed they looked for “finance” or “trade” or “stock,” and then realized my chances of signing up for the “Barenaked” Ladies cruise from work were low.)
So, I asked to work from home this afternoon, but instead of following my usual practice I didn’t give a reason. I just said there was something I had to do at home.
What do we call that? A Secret.
I knew I probably could tell the new people at work about the cruise, but THEN I’d have to keep a secret about the naked photo. And given that Friend #3 and I were having lunch with our Big Boss, who was raised in India, it was even more key that I keep quiet about the cruise I was signing up for. From home. In secret. How do we react to secrets? We spill a different secret to maintain the Secret Brain Balance.
I did pretty well until the drive back from lunch when we were discussing cars. I suddenly said, “Oh. You know what my car has? A seat warmer. The first time I was in a car with seat warmers I didn’t know what they were and the drive turned on the seat warmer and I didn’t know and I thought I’d wet my pants.”
So. At least they don’t know I left work to get on a taboo web site and sign up to be naked.
10 responses to “Secrets: Still holding at 1.”
I find that Indian cultural sentiments pretty much equate to those in the US in the 1950s. Back then, I think women were pretty much incapable of being naked.Get cozy with an IT geek. He probably knows a way of legitimately unlocking your Internet access, but also know that they probably track your every click. Ah, America! Land of the free.
When you thought you wet your pants, did you sit there in mortification wondering WTF happened? Just me? Alrighty then. Mine as A/C in the seats too. I just wonder whose ass is hot enough to need to air condition it.
Yeah, it’s totally better that your boss thinks you wet your adult self than to think you might be the person who takes naked pictures…rock, hard place much?
Yeah, it’s totally better that your boss thinks you wet your adult self than to know that perhaps you’ve taken a naked picture and are going to do it again…rock, hard place much?
OK I really didn’t mean to leave that twice, but the first time it didn’t show up. And now I’m leaving you a 3rd comment. Long live the Queen!
Becs – This woman seems pretty laid back. She came here in her twenties and I think she wholly adopted the lifestyle.Shania – No, at the time I had just been diagnosed with MS, so I had to alert her I may have just wet the seat. No, she said, it’s just the seat warmer.Autumn – Well, one’s a conscious decision and one isn’t. Apples and Oranges.
YAY! BNL cruise! (Can you tell I’m living vicariously through you?)
Sue – why live vicariously? Sign up for the cruise. If the husband isn’t interested it takes no time to get a roommate on the cruise message board.
This reminds me of the first time I sat in a car with heated seats. My date didn’t mention them, he just turned them on – on high. I thought I was getting sick because I kept getting warmer and felt like my legs were on fire.
AmyinStL – Ha. I like your date. I wonder if any woman has ever been tricked into thinking she was excited by a guy because of some tricky car-seat warming.