What I Do In Meetings

I get bored easily. Today, in a meeting, I was half-heartedly listening to the speaker, when she used the word "focuses," as a plural noun. I looked at Mike, seated at my right, and mouthed the word "foci." He wrinkled his brow, so I wrote it on my notebook and showed him. He nodded and smirked in appreciation.


When the speaker used the word "thesauruses" a minute later, Mike and I looked at each other immediately. I wrote "Thesaurus = book of synonyms" at the top of my notebook. I then wrote "Bronthesaurus = book of dinosaurs" next to it.


And Mike tried not to giggle. And then IT WAS ON. With increasing glee, I brainstormed the following words, to entertain myself and attempt to get Mike to laugh in the middle of our meeting:



Dictionary -- book of words


Pictionary -- book of pictures


Bictionary -- book of pens


Cricktionary -- chiropractor's manual


Thicktionary -- a very big book


Hicktionary -- a very small book with small words  germane to rural areas


Fictionary -- a book of made-up words


Kicktionary -- a book of soccer heroes


Lictionary -- a book of sexual ideas


Quicktionary -- a blank book


Sticktionary -- a book about wood


Ticktionary -- a book about clocks


and my personal favorite:


Ricktionary -- a book that will never:

• give you up
• let you down
• run around
• desert you
• make you cry
• say goodbye
• tell a lie
• hurt you

TAKE THAT MIKE. DID YOU ENJOY GETTING STERN LOOKS FROM THE BOSS?