I just threw somebody out of my office. It felt good to do.
I was making a playlist, ordering Pink Floyd tracks according to their original albums. Fascinating, i know, but bear with me. Thing is, I was concentrating on it. Now anybody who knows me knows that I kinda turn autistic when I concentrate, i.e. I block out the world around me and focus on a single thing.
So when an idiot silently walks into my office and yells “JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!” behind me, bad things happen. Like me almost falling out of my swivel chair and having a heart attack.
I am rarely pissed off. Rarely angry. But this time, I just looked at him and calmly said “get out of my office before I punch your face in”. Funny thing, I meant it. Funnier thing, he left.
Was the guy joking around? o_O Gah I hate it when people startle me.
(http://livejournal.com/users/montreality)
ya, he was. He came back to apologize a while ago.
(http://livejournal.com/users/talisker)
did you apologize for the threat? 0_o
(http://livejournal.com/users/blacksquiggles)
no.
he's done this to me a couple of times before, and i always let it go. I'd politely ask him not to do it again. Still, he did. It seems that the fear of bodily harm was necessary to get through to him.
(http://livejournal.com/users/talisker)