"You're so Preeeeettttty!"

[LittleJade]

Okay, so my coworker, Jewel, doesn't like calling people stupid. If I'm having a day where my brain just ain't cuttin' it, she'll look at me and say "you're so preeeeetttty!", in this irritating cute fake voice.

It's endearing. Truly.

So I've taken to calling days like that (days like today), "Pretty Days"...


What are your latest "pretty" moments? Those moments where your brain just disconnects from reality... those moments where you forget the obvious (like, as I asked a client one day "is your son a boy or a girl?"... I'd meant to ask if their CHILD was a boy or a girl... jesus). Things like that.


Tell me about your "pretty" days, or "pretty" moments.

 

[madetotakeit]

Hmmm...two I can think of in recent memory...both work related.

When fire departments arrive on scene of a fire alarm, they give an arrival update. I swear some of them try to see how long they can make it because we are supposed to repeat it. On a particular call, with a particularly talkative fire fighter. I was supposed to say "On scene assuming command, investigative mode." What my "pretty" mouth said was, "On scene assuming commode."

I work with a woman from Cuba. I have been trying to listen to her pronunciations and refrain from slaughtering the many Spanish words that proliferate this area. One of the popular words here is Punta. Between putting the call out to the units, the person talking to me over my shoulder, the call taker being very loud at the other end of the room, and trying to pronounce this word correctly I had one too many items on my multi-tasking list. I left out the "n" in my pronunciation. Translation into English:instead of sending them to mutual aid for "Fat End" I sent them to mutual aid for "Fat Whore." It was an exceptionally "pretty" day.