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Mar. 27th, 2008 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackIt's funny, if my fingernails are just ever so slightly too long, most of the time I don't notice, but just occasionally it jumps out at me and once I've noticed it's like fire on my skin, I want to tear the ends off right then and I have to deal with it immediately.
At home, cutting fingernails always feels like a minor chore, something I'll do but not something I'll want to do. Especially as nothing I do once every few weeks gets into a regular rhythm. However, I've kept a spare pare of clippers in my draw at work[1] and at work, it feels relaxing and cathartic to snip snip snip the ends away!
But then I remembered the Dilbert cartoon. It's something like Alice listening to clipping sounds from Wally's cubicle, and screaming "AGH! It's so annoying. Yet quiet enough I'll look neurotic if I say anything! It's driving me mad!" and the last panel is Wally telling Dilbert about his new screensaver, "Wally's 101 annoying cubicle sounds".
Is fingernail clipping so annoying? I can see why it might be in principle, but it doesn't feel it. It's very quiet -- practically not showing up against the background -- and lasting only a few minutes and only every few weeks. Work isn't so silent that noise would stand out. And we're spaced so only about one person might hear.
[1] along with emergency: toothbrush, alcohol and tissues. I've yet to stash shoes and underwear.
At home, cutting fingernails always feels like a minor chore, something I'll do but not something I'll want to do. Especially as nothing I do once every few weeks gets into a regular rhythm. However, I've kept a spare pare of clippers in my draw at work[1] and at work, it feels relaxing and cathartic to snip snip snip the ends away!
But then I remembered the Dilbert cartoon. It's something like Alice listening to clipping sounds from Wally's cubicle, and screaming "AGH! It's so annoying. Yet quiet enough I'll look neurotic if I say anything! It's driving me mad!" and the last panel is Wally telling Dilbert about his new screensaver, "Wally's 101 annoying cubicle sounds".
Is fingernail clipping so annoying? I can see why it might be in principle, but it doesn't feel it. It's very quiet -- practically not showing up against the background -- and lasting only a few minutes and only every few weeks. Work isn't so silent that noise would stand out. And we're spaced so only about one person might hear.
[1] along with emergency: toothbrush, alcohol and tissues. I've yet to stash shoes and underwear.
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Date: 2008-03-27 03:09 pm (UTC)The only two reasons to keep spare underwear at work, but not trousers, are in case (a) you either are stuck at work for a while or have to go somewhere other than your main repository of clean underpants, or (b) you get ill and have a sudden accident.
However, both of these reasons can also be remedied by the step of removing one's underpants and wearing solely the trousers.
I don't think it's so common that one has a sudden attack of illness, compared to the much more frequent "oh, I've spilt something brightly colored on my khaki trousers" issue-- and how often does this happen before an important meeting or after-work social plan? At this point, clean underpants won't do you any good, but clean trousers would help!
I don't keep spares at work, but I did have at one point three shirts and a pair of jeans in my car; the jeans were washed, and the shirts are actually in the possession of three co-workers who consecutively spilled things down their fronts.
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Date: 2008-03-27 07:50 pm (UTC)Indeed, that makes a lot of sense. For some reason I don't like to do it anymore, I'm not quite sure why.
the jeans were washed, and the shirts are actually in the possession of three co-workers who consecutively spilled things down their fronts.
LOL. That makes sense. (Also, I live 5 min from home, so I can go back and get something if I really need to, things in the parking lot would be an improvement but only a small one, mainly to stop me going home and forgetting to get out of the shower and go back to work.)
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Date: 2008-03-28 07:12 pm (UTC)really? :)
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Date: 2008-03-31 11:45 am (UTC)