“Remoted – Hybrid” – Day 934 (Friday) – boo day

As office office days go, it was like a roller coaster ride. The kind in the kiddie ride section of the amusement park. Not too scary, maybe a belly flop or two, but overall, on the pleasant side of things.

The ride into work was an even lighter version of Friday morning light and it was in the seven- to nine-minute range getting to the garage. It was green lights all the way and light volume. Once in the office, it was a morning routine of logging in and checking the to-do list. Not long after, it got busy with a rush of activity and frenzy due to other people’s poor planning becoming an emergency in our department. Basically, just another day. Poop flows downstream, and most times, we are the collection center for it.

Hunger hit quickly and lunch was heated and eaten just past 11:00. Office office hunger hits suddenly and early. It is very different from home office hunger, which creeps in slowly and much later, often not until 2:00. It’s weird.

Then, all of a sudden, the busy disappeared. Evaporated. The energy that carried the morning was gone, and like a switch had been flipped, the momentum stopped and the day dragged. Time stood still. Not just for me, but for all of us on the floor. Open a file, make changes, save said file and it was as if time had moved backward. 

Hooray, I was "Booed"!

The afternoon interoffice mail delivered a “Boo.” October means the potential for being “Booed” and in October that is a good thing. In chain mail fashion, treats are delivered anonymously with a note and the recipient is asked to keep it moving by sending with a copy of the note and a treat anonymously to two other bankers. 

Today, I received a delightful and delicious boo in the form of a Ziplock treat bag stuffed with candies. The chocolate ones, Snickers, Hershey bar, Almond Joy, and Whoppers, disappeared in a matter of minutes. So weird. The Smartees and Star Bursts were saved for next week. And now the fun task is to make or buy some treats to send and keep it going. 

Finally, one million hours and a bunch of name-brand chocolate candies later, it was 5:00 on Friday of a long weekend and freedom had arrived. Hallelujah.

October has many redeeming qualities besides foliage. One of them is secret candy deliveries, the hope thereof, and spreading the secret joy.