Gary the CPA is in the office today. He just rents out a room in our suite for his private practice but has a day job so I haven't seen him for months. But he took today off so he could watch the Michael Jackson memorial but once it was over he didn't want to be sad and alone at home so he came in to sit in his office and watch news coverage about Michael Jackson on his computer.
Here are a couple of things I haven't missed about him:
1.) His chattering. He loooooves to gab. He loves to come out and tell me all about the deals he has found and all about his famous relatives and all about the movies he has seen recently and how come I don't go to the movies every weekend, and would I like a Pepsi because he got them on sale and he has stocked the fridge with them, and did I know that his daughter is a CPA, an actual licensed CPA, can you believe that, and did I watch the Michael Jackson memorial, and did I know that he knows a guy who knows a guy who knows Michael Jackson's accountant. Because he does and he'll tell you all about it.
2.) He sucks his teeth for about an hour after he eats anything. I'm sure that I've mentioned that I'm kind of sensitive to mouth noises. Loud chewing (with the mouth open or closed), chomping teeth, that pasty dry mouth sound, rattling mouth breathing, phlegmy voices, they all drive me NUTS. I had to turn off NPR yesterday because the guy doing a piece on Robert McNamara sounded too jowly. So listening to Gary suck the food out of his teeth for an hour makes me want to throw my stapler at his head. Once he is done with the teeth-sucking he will stand at his window for 15 minutes and floss. I suppose this is better, if you don't mind the sound of floss snapping.
3 comments:
Hey I am a hygienist so the flossing is impressive. However one should do that in private!
You get such good material for your blog at work!
Way to recycle!!!
yay, for flossing!!! so the diane reem (?) show is the one in our family, that we have turn off. which is shameful because it is actually due to a disability but she is so hard to listen to. on the other hand, you know who isn't. 89.9 kcrw/npr jason bently, morning becomes eclectic . now there's a nice voice to listen to, certainly easy on the ears. mmmhmm
Yay. I thought I was the only one with a mouth-noise issue challenge. Good. Well, good for me, bad for you. I've never shared that with anyone, but it's nice to know that someone else understands how annoying that is. I think my sons have it also because one time I heard some of their conversation and they only had to say a couple of words and the other one "got it", like, "he needs a drink cause of that *makes tongue scraping sound at top of mouth* and the other son was all, "Dude! I know! I'm all *grabs his ears and waves his head back and forth while gagging*"
Yea...and that was over ten years ago....
You're a soldier, Rachel...
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