Friday, November 11, 2016

I Almost Forgot

 
“Has the meeting started?”

“Yes.”

“Shhh.”

“Sorry. Are you sure?”

“Yes.”

“But nothing is happening.”

“Shhh.”

“Sorry. But, wait, why are you shushing me? Why the silence? What kind of meeting is this?”

“This meeting was scheduled three weeks ago.”

“Yes, I know, but we don't seem to be doing anything.”

“Do you need some more coffee?”

“No, thank you. So what are we supposed to be doing?”

“We wait.”

“For what?”

“We always wait.”

“Is this a 'planes of meetingness' thing? Because that's been debunked as a myth. There is no higher reality where minds and meetings merge and coexist, it's all an hallucination brought on by stress and overwork. And what's up with the plant? I heard you guys were bringing them up here, I don't know why it's on a chair. Here, I'll move it to the window...”

“Don't touch the plant!”

“Oh my... I see it! I see the realm of true meetingness! It's... It's so... It's full of... It's full of dicks!”

“Is he dead?”

“He has departed this world.”

“He has ascended.”

“He is part of the eternal meeting now.”

“Should I have made decaf?”

“Good meeting, everyone.”

Where Do The Cords Go?


“Do you know what I heard?”

“Is it about meetings?”

“Yes.”

“Is it about plants?”

“No.”

“Is it about how traveling into the planes of meetingness too many times causes subdimensional office worlds to leak into this reality?”

“No.”

“Does it have something to do with bleeding from the eyes?”

“No. Wait, are my eyes bleeding?”

“Yeah, totally.”

“I thought it was just you.”

“Are mine? Oh, gross.”

“Anyway, do you know what I heard?”

“What?”

“Plants are taking over the meetings.”

“You're standing too close.”

Nope, No Acknowledgment


“Where will you be sitting?”

“What? I don't know.”

“Didn't they tell you?”

“Yeah, but I can't remember.”

“How can you not remember?”

“It's not important.”

“You do know where you're sitting, don't you? It's at the end of the table!”

“Maybe.”

“Every time! You're stuck at the end of the table at every meeting.”

“The end of the table is fine. The boss is facing me.”

“The boss doesn't even have a face!”

“You don't understand meetings at all. It's not about where you sit. After the first hour everybody loses track of where they were sitting anyway. A couple more hours and you lose all sense of individuality. The room dissolves and we enter the hyperdimensional planes of pure meetingness.”

“Really?”

“No. The person at the end of the table has to get everybody coffee.”