Behind The Brown Door
Posted on | February 28, 2008 at 10:37 pm | Comments Off
Lately, a sign has been appearing in our office building on the door leading to the parking garage (actually, on the door leading into the first airlock to the parking garage; we have to go through two airlocks and three doors to actually get into the garage). The sign says QUIET PLEASE, DEPOSITION IN PROGRESS and it points to an unmarked door off to the left. I always wondered what was behind that door. Now I know: Lawyers! They’re sneaky and they hide.
I can’t quite figure out the purpose of the sign. Maybe it’s there to keep the architects from the office on the right side from congregating out in the hallway and making loud architect-y talk outside the Lawyer Door. Those architects do know how to party. Or maybe it’s there to keep people from slamming the door to the garage as they go in and out. Except that the door is on a slow-closing hinge and it’s impossible to slam it. Maybe it’s to silence the smokers out there in the parking garage beyond the three doors. They can be a rowdy bunch, especially if they’re also architects.
My personal theory is that it’s there to brag. “We’re lawyers and we’re doing big important lawyer-y stuff like depositions! Don’t disturb us with your watercooler hallway smalltalk about last night’s The Biggest Loser!”
Pet Peeve of the Day: When the instructions in a videogame say “Press [start button] to Pause”, and the start button has an entirely different effect and there doesn’t seem to be a way to actually pause the game. (This is the game in question, although I’m referring to the PS3 version, which I downloaded from the PlayStation Network Store to my PS3. It’s simple but strangely addictive and hypnotic. I bet a lot of people play it while in an altered state.)
Latre.