Leftovers, Fish and Work

Missy had set up the blog last night, however we didn't get a chance to talk about it until this morning and she asked my opinion on the background. For some reason I think the fish bones are appropriate, especially since they reminded me of a Pet Peeve.

At one of my old jobs, in a Cube world, I was sitting at my desk just after lunch, when this putrid smell started to waft into my area. I had no idea where this smell was coming from, finally I went and asked a couple people if they could also smell it (making sure it was in my imagination, though if my imagination could make up this smell, I'd be making millions doing something with it). 

Everyone I asked could sort of smell it but for some reason it seemed the strongest around/near my desk. We finally narrowed it down to a girl two cubes away who appeared to be eating. What we didn't know. It was so bad at this point that I started to gag at my desk.

Missy's boyfriend and a co-worker who were in the meeting room directly behind my desk came out, and were a taken back by the smell. If I remember correctly he asked the girl to bring her food back into the kitchenette at work as it smelled terrible.

Turns out she brought fish in to work and because she was "worried" about the smell, she only partially nuked it in the microwave. Somehow she was not able to tell how absolutely horrid this dish smelled. Now, I've eaten a lot of fish in my life, but I've never eaten fish that smelled like that, heck you don't buy fish that smells like that! If fish smells like that, you know what you do with it? Use it as bait. Or compost it. You don't eat it AND you DEFINITELY don't bring it work!!

Pet Peeve: People who bring in smelly food to work, microwave and eat it like nothing is going on. If you are making the person next to you gag, seriously rethink you lunch choices. Oh, and get your schnoz checked. It might be broken.