Saturday, December 16, 2006
Not being a dick to people |4:57 PM| Totally forgot about one of the things that happened last night.
We had a white elephant gift exchange, summarized thus: Everyone brings a wrapped gift, puts them in a pile. Each person goes up, chooses a gift, or if someone before them has already unwrapped something they want, they can steal their gift. Process repeats. We had a limit of one theft, which means if you stole someone's gift, it was locked to you.
In any case, the budget for this was like $15-$20, and I had told my boss I wanted to bring "something flashy". (Not being able to decide on a gift, as it's hard to shop for a whole company, I went with a really neato flashlight. What a horrible joke). The first thing unwrapped is this huge, nice, folding poker table. Holy shit. Way out of budget, and I felt like a total dick.
The next couple of presents were stuff like "Box of soup" and "Roadside emergency kit" so I felt a lot less like a dick. Buuut... when it came to my turn, I went to steal the poker table. The woman who had it looked at me like I was the biggest dick in the world, which, admittedly, I felt like. I took it, and she walks off to the tree to get a new gift. I stop in place, and yell "I'll high card you for it!"
Yes, I happened to have grabbed a pack of playing cards and put them into my jacket when I was cleaning out my car.
Here's part of the deal, I knew it was a new, unshuffled deck of cards. That means I also knew basically what order the cards would fall. I gave them a single, crappy bridge shuffle, and put the deck down. The woman, Lana, took her cut, and I took mine. I was reaching for about, hmm, what would 3/4s minus 1/8 be? 5/8's? of the way through the deck. She pulled the Ace, I pulled the 2 of clubs.
Wow. I was shooting to lose, but that was amazing.
It worked out. I felt like a lot less of a dick, no one else was going to steal that poker table from her, and I don't think I damaged my reputation with the company.
Not being a dick to people |4:57 PM| Totally forgot about one of the things that happened last night.
We had a white elephant gift exchange, summarized thus: Everyone brings a wrapped gift, puts them in a pile. Each person goes up, chooses a gift, or if someone before them has already unwrapped something they want, they can steal their gift. Process repeats. We had a limit of one theft, which means if you stole someone's gift, it was locked to you.
In any case, the budget for this was like $15-$20, and I had told my boss I wanted to bring "something flashy". (Not being able to decide on a gift, as it's hard to shop for a whole company, I went with a really neato flashlight. What a horrible joke). The first thing unwrapped is this huge, nice, folding poker table. Holy shit. Way out of budget, and I felt like a total dick.
The next couple of presents were stuff like "Box of soup" and "Roadside emergency kit" so I felt a lot less like a dick. Buuut... when it came to my turn, I went to steal the poker table. The woman who had it looked at me like I was the biggest dick in the world, which, admittedly, I felt like. I took it, and she walks off to the tree to get a new gift. I stop in place, and yell "I'll high card you for it!"
Yes, I happened to have grabbed a pack of playing cards and put them into my jacket when I was cleaning out my car.
Here's part of the deal, I knew it was a new, unshuffled deck of cards. That means I also knew basically what order the cards would fall. I gave them a single, crappy bridge shuffle, and put the deck down. The woman, Lana, took her cut, and I took mine. I was reaching for about, hmm, what would 3/4s minus 1/8 be? 5/8's? of the way through the deck. She pulled the Ace, I pulled the 2 of clubs.
Wow. I was shooting to lose, but that was amazing.
It worked out. I felt like a lot less of a dick, no one else was going to steal that poker table from her, and I don't think I damaged my reputation with the company.
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