Wednesday, April 6, 2011

When Life Gives You Lemons...

ReeRee is at it again! For some reason, telling this woman that she makes horrible lemonade is grounds for immediate dismissal from her ever revolving mental Rolodex. A few weeks back, DeeDee observed ReeRee making lemonade for the dining room that she thought would be too sour. So DeeDee spoke up and said that she would suggest putting a little less lemon juice in. Well, you would have thought that she suggest ReeRee donate her first born to science! Since that day, ReeRee has not spoken to DeeDee unless she absolutely needed to. (Prior to The Lemonade Incident, as I've come to call it, ReeRee and DeeDee were becoming inseparable. Much to my dismay, but that's to be saved for another post.) ReeRee has now made it her personal vendetta to be as rude to DeeDee as possible. All because of some lemonade. Yeah, she has her priorities in order...

Fast forward to Friday, April Fool's Day. The employees at The Club love practical jokes. For the 7 yrs that I've worked here, many many jokes have been played and everyone knows they're coming and appreciates them. Except ReeRee because she's miserable.

LaLa had a great idea. Tell ReeRee that DeeDee bumped her for a party on Saturday and DeeDee will be working in ReeRee's place. I advised LaLa against it. That's like standing in a lion's den with a dead antelope strapped to you. You're going to get attacked. She agreed with me and thought of another joke to play on her. That was the last that I had heard of it until Saturday morning. Whether it was LaLa or someone else, ReeRee was told that DeeDee was working and not her. I started joking around with the B Man (my immediate boss) and had mentioned what LaLa thought was such a great idea the previous day. B Man proceeded to tell me that someone had, in fact, told ReeRee this which had resulted in her tracking down the B Man demanding to know why she 'has to fight for her paycheck around here.' B Man asked her what the hell she was talking about and she relayed the message about DeeDee. B Man gave her a blank stare for a few seconds and then replied with 'DeeDee isn't working tomorrow. And neither are you.'

Now in any normal situation in any normal world, the accuser would immediately retract their statement and apologize. You've never met ReeRee. She simply looked at B Man, turned to walk away and mumbled something along the lines of 'it must be an April Fool's joke.' Ya think?!

P.S. According to the ReeRee Dictionary, assinuate is a word meaning to 'introduce or insert oneself in a subtle manner.'

P.P.S. This is not ReeRee's first run in with someone who has hated on her lemonade. A few months back Mr. P (head honcho) asked who made the lemonade that day. When she fessed up, he told her that she needs to try it again because if he were at an establishment that served lemonade like that he'd send it back and order something else. She doesn't like Mr. P either...

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