The workplace is a great source of great unknown lines (this one being maybe my favourite). Sometimes you have to be there, sometimes it could work for every workplace, which is why I love the two I am going to publish now. I hesitated before publishing, I try to stay discreet about work, but since for the record there is no real animosity between the protagonists, I thought I couldn't get those unpublished.
So my manager is off for a little bit. Some of my other colleagues didn't know about it and one asked me:
"So Guillaume, did you finally snap and kill him?"
This is the first great unknown line. It is even funnier because I look nothing like a murderer. Seriously. I don't. I wouldn't snap. I am no Norman Bates. I mean, I actually like my manager, my colleagues and my work environment, even on bad days I am surprised I prefer it to a school I used to work for. Anyway, I guess I don't mind having a sinister reputation, because I replied:
"I wouldn't do something that stupid, I'll be the prime suspect."
Which I think is both diplomatic and slightly Sollozzo-esque (remember that line in The Godfather, "If I'd wanted to kill you, you'd be dead already").
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Maybe they suspect you because of the very fact that you DON'T look or act like a murderer. It's always the quiet, polite non-assuming blokes that are the ones that go 'postal' on the boss! At least that's what I read on the internet! And if you read it on the internet, then it must be true right?! j/k ;o)
Guillaume, Love your sense of humor and your good sense.
:-)
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