Workplace hazards
When you start a new job at a newspaper, you also get new legends, new myths, new gossip about coworkers who have affairs with each other, or the absurd thing so-and-so did when he was covering such-and-such.
Yesterday, for instance, I learned that one time, one of the page layout guys, while standing in the lobby of the building, got shot in the leg.
It was a glancing blow, as the bullet ricocheted off the floor and dealt him a flesh wound, but a wound nonetheless. Members of the OIJ (the Costa Rican version of the FBI) were called to the scene.
They stood there in the lobby, laconic, shrugging. Who knew where the bullet came from? They suggested that probably someone, somewhere, had just been cleaning a gun.
daniel sillima wrote:
What beat are you on there?
Posted on 09-Jun-07 at 8:52 am | Permalink
Steve wrote:
In response, tell him about the time you cold cocked (two words or one?) that school shooter at our old high school.
Posted on 09-Jun-07 at 1:14 pm | Permalink
pjk wrote:
dan - economy, business, trade, tourism, and… sports?
steve - two words, but maybe hyphenated? plus, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Posted on 09-Jun-07 at 1:55 pm | Permalink
Steve wrote:
I was mainly suggesting you build up your own fake legendary past. I figured that you could do a “ripped from the US headlines” approach to get them to believe you.
Posted on 09-Jun-07 at 7:24 pm | Permalink