I think the most effective punishment would have been making him explain it himself, but I guess the uncomfortable questions are part of the job sometime. Although I don't think I want to know what it says that an email about slang was actually harder than that talk with the kid who spent half her life in a hell dimension.
And . . . okay. Most of me was mortified, but 1/5 was laughing really, really hard.
Yeah, I thought about it, but the hard questions are pretty much commonplace in our line of work, and better to be sure Mondo got a straight answer than leave him open to another one of these. He's not best pleased with his suitemate, though, I'll tell you that.
-snort- Tell me about it. First I had to get the hysterical laughter out of my system before I could reply with anything resembling an innocuous tone.
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Date: 2007-04-21 01:41 am (UTC)Kidding, mostly.
I mailed Mondo; thank God for years of health talks to fall back on in the non-embarrassment side of things. -sigh-
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Date: 2007-04-21 01:52 am (UTC)And . . . okay. Most of me was mortified, but 1/5 was laughing really, really hard.
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Date: 2007-04-21 01:57 am (UTC)-snort- Tell me about it. First I had to get the hysterical laughter out of my system before I could reply with anything resembling an innocuous tone.