[originally posted: 5/24/2017]
I return to my desk after a quick trip to the cafeteria, take a purposeful seat facing the rest of my office-mates, and announce, “I have a very serious question to ask everyone.”
I wait deliberately until they all turn around. After I have their full attention, I continue. “If you were homeless,” I take this pause to evaluate their faces. Their expressions relay that of hesitant anticipation–what I’ve said so far has been deemed worthy of the interruption, but it’s a little weak, it could quickly take on a ridiculous silly tone.
“If you were homeless, would you rather live on the streets or out in the wilderness?”
To my delight, they do not scoff me and turn back to their computers, but instead, they all take a dedicated moment to ponder the question.
“What made you think of that?” Ethan asked me.
Oh, silly naive Ethan, what an unsuspecting soul you are to venture down that wild path, to stand at that precipice and dare still to peer over the edge.
Well, Ethan, luckily for you, I know exactly where that inspired destiny started!
Last Thursday, I received an email at work through the social media distro:
There is a current image circulating Twitter, Facebook and Instagram of a couple engaged in “adult activity”. The screenshot includes a response from us. Do not respond to these messages at all!
Naturally, I wanted to see that picture.
And, I wanted to know what kind of response an associate could have possibly made to something supposedly very inappropriate.
Not an hour after that, the highest ranking employee in the building stopped in my office and, amongst other things, commented on how social media has been going viral a lot lately with insurance related stories. In fact, he hadn’t heard of this infamous picture from the work grapevine, or even any of those three named sites, but rather, of all places, from a post on Reddit.
That left me with one thought: I have to find that feed.