Here’s a synopsis of how this works.<\/p>\n
1. MHG has best intentions. She wants to send Valentines to vets. Very nice.
\n2. At the last moment, she gets an idea to give our gaming group the opportunity to help out..
\n3. She is unavailable to make this happen and asks me politely to make a handoff to Loricious after work.
\n4. Technically, I’m unavailable, but since I don’t like MHG to be disappointed, I make arrangements to go home at lunch to get the Valentines.
\n5. It takes my entire lunch hour due to Milwaukee morons and my sudden need for gas to make this happen. MHG is unavailable to ask which Valentines to handout, so I take all of them, hoping to contact her later.
\n6. I came in too late to take a long lunch and so must now decide whether I risk further sullying my work reputation in order to eat.
\n7. I get the Valentines to Loricious provided all goes well.
\n8. Loricious takes the Valentines to game. They are ignored by everyone other than Loricious, in all likelihood.
\n9. Loricious now has a bunch of Valentines, several of them unsigned, but we need to make arrangements to pick them up so we can get them to the vets by Monday.
\n10. Loricious is possibly difficult to meet up with, as she is a very busy person. If she can meet up, MHG and I feel guilty for making her life even more hectic over this drop-off.
\n11. Vets get Valentines signed hastily by MHG and me, toss said Shrek schlock into garbage summarily.<\/p>\n
The sentiment of this Valentine’s Day: I am a bitter, jaded man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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