Cubicle Conversations

I just moved offices at work this week, so I think it’s okay now to spill some secrets from my former one, a room the size of two combined SUVs which I’d shared with two other people for the past few years. Given its, ahem, cozy size, the three of us couldn’t help but overhear the conversations of the others—our sides of them anyway. What made it interesting (to me, at least) was that while my kids are teenaged and above, one of my officemates had an adorable eight-year-old daughter, and the other didn’t have any children.

So can you tell who received which of the personal calls below, just from our sides of the conversations?

Officemate #1: "Hi sweetie, are you having a fun day? What is new?"

Officemate #2: Silence (the phone rarely rings except for boring work stuff)

Officemate #3: "I’m hanging up RIGHT NOW and no, I will not fund your overnight road trip to LA."

Answers: 1: parent of the still-sweet little girl, 2: my kid-free colleague, and 3: that would be moi, of course.

Yup, I'll miss eavesdropping on (I mean, working with) my officemates. Wonder if they're saying the same about me. Too bad I can't hear 'em.

Comments

As the parent of the "sweet little girl" and your former office mate, I just want to clarify that I was talking to my husband. I speak to everyone as if they were 8.

It is comforting to know that, as the mother of a teenaged son, I am not alone in saying that he only calls when he needs money or something to that effect.