I need Hivemind help.

Towards the end of the day at work some people in the office were joking around while I was on the phone, I got an email where someone had pretended to be one of the new supervisors at the helpdesk and sent a couple of wacky emails "I did not lock my computer, and I love teletubbies" and "I love fish sticks!" variety.

I got off the phone and heard fish sticks mentioned, and punned, "Remember, if you throw it against the wall, fish sticks."

This got a laugh, and a guy from the next department on the other side of the cube wall stood up and yelled at me, "What the FUCK is wrong with you?"

It all seemed a bit overboard, and everyone laughed, and I laughed.

In retrospect, some hours later, it occurs to me that the guys around me may have been making some lewd comments that I did not hear, and that my pun may have been thought of to be part of that conversation, and therefore very wrong.

What can I do to stop the possible repercussions in the morning? I am beside myself to think that I may have inadvertently offended someone deeply enough to get fired over this. What can I do, where can I turn, what do I say?

Part of me thinks the above statement with a couple of modest edits should be given to one of Daniel's supervisors - but possibly not in written form. And/or that the strategy to take the with guy who said "WTF is wrong with you?" is to very simply say, "A few hours after that convo, it occurred to me that "fish sticks" might have meant something other than the obvious. If so, ew, sorry." But then leave it at that. Because the more you explain yourself, the more it sounds like you are protesting too much.

The other alternative would be to play innocent of the possible innuendo, and stage a "Christopher Judge finds out about furries" moment. Because making them explain the other guys' crudity could theoretically take the heat off you.

so DH just had an emergency tooth extraction. yay! I was trying to remember what foods worked for people in the last few days.

And the dentist -- gave Matt the tooth -- eww. He has been instructed to hide it so I don't see it.

I got no suggestions, beth. I do hope the pain is under control.

He is way better now. It was really quick. we left the house 845 and we were home by 1015 -- tis included a stop at the pharmacy on the way home.

and some one will have suggestions -- 2 or 3 people have had extractions lately -- so I told Matt he was just being fashionable

"Oh right! I meant to snark about Twilight, Edward and the sparkly urine, but my head exploded and I couldn't make it work."

I just snarfed coffee on my keyboard.

Mal spent about 7 hours at the vet and *finally* gave it up and peed in their sterile environement[1]. he has no crystals in his urine, but does have a UTI so it's banana-flavored antibiotics and wet food mixed with extra water for my little furry bladder on legs!

[1] After, allegedly, growling at his state of incarceration and attacking the bars of the cage in myriad cute ways. The vet techs took *lots* of digital pics of him, most of which are pretty awesome.

so DH just had an emergency tooth extraction. yay! I was trying to remember what foods worked for people in the last few days.

Anything not-hard: smoothies, yogurt, applesauce, bananas, ice cream, peanut butter (actually, a PB&J sandwich on soft bread [as opposed to the aggressively high-fiber bread that has more whole grains that can be sort of poke-y]), soup, pasta that doesn't require intense chewing (so, no lasagna, but do try angel hair or other skinny/tiny pasta), and baked/mashed potatoes.

Honestly, if he chews on the side opposite from the extraction, he should be fine for just about anything. But if his whole mouth is tender (and it might be for a day or 3), then go with the mooshy foods.

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