things not to do
I'm greatly amused.
I'm sitting in a coworker's cube discussing optimistic locking and the problems involved in merging text representations of binary data when his MSN came up.
"What's this?" he asks rhetorically.
"Um... did you enter a chat room?"
"Well, that one's my daughter," he says, pointing out one of the participants with an obscenely long MSN nickname.
The MSN conversation goes something like this:
Girl1: whas her name?
Girl2: Shelley.
Daughter: WTF thas so gay.
"Gayr?"
"More gay," I offer.
Daughter: Fuck shes a BITCH Daughter: BITCH BITCH BITCH!! Girl2: Yeah fck i hat her Girl1: um Girl1: wtf is <insert coworker's MSN nick here> Session ends.
"I think I'm going to have to have a little talk with her. How do I print this off?"
"Oh, I think you can just save it first," I say.
"All right, we'll talk more tomorrow. I'm heading home."
That made my day.