a side of bacon

this seriously just happened.

i was sipping my coffee, happily sorting through my inbox - emails to skim and delete, emails to delete without reading, emails to ignore, emails to consider responding to later this week, emails to reply to immediately (0), emails to forward to friends with appropriately angry commentary, etc. when suddenly a very flustered bacon appeared in my doorway. 

bacon: hey!  ohmygod, do you have a second?  i am SO confused.

me: huh!  shocking.

bacon: what?

me: stocking!  my stockings are bothering me.  (NOTE: what are stockings?  i'm wearing not entirely work appropriate trouser shorts with strappy sandals.  so sue me.)

bacon: oh okay.  so i totally just missed a meeting!  i don't understand it!  it's on my calendar but i don't remember accepting it.

me: um, so it's on your calendar but you still missed the meeting?

bacon: yes!  i didn't accept it!  i just don't get it!

me: ah, okay well hang on.  regardless of whether or not you accepted the meeting request, wouldn't you have just gone since you saw it on your calendar this morning?

bacon: no, i saw it on my calendar, but i didn't remember accepting it so i thought it wasn't something i had to go to.

me: huh.  okay, well was it just a staff meeting or something?  i'm not sure why you would think you didn't have to go to a meeting on.  your.  own.  calendar.

bacon: like i said, i hadn't accepted it.  and no, it wasn't just a staff meeting!  it was with the printers for the business cards and our boss!!!

me: wtf.  alright, so it appears it was just a meeting between three parties.  we both know our boss wouldn't have arranged the meeting, so was it setup by the printers or by YOU?

bacon: um i have no idea!  how do i figure that out?

me: omgomgomgomgomg.  let's go look at your calendar.

we troop down to her office (bacon speed walking like one of those odd women out at lunch in their work attire and white tennies, me traipsing along behind her with a smirk on my face) and she sits at her desk.

bacon: see, here's the calendar item. (pointing with her finger)

me: mmhmm, okay just double-click on it to open up the detailed view.

bacon: okay, here it is.

me: UM.  see that part at the top?  where it says "organizer"?

bacon: yes.

me: see how it has YOUR name after the colon?

bacon: yes.

me: that means YOU created this calendar item and YOU setup the meeting.

bacon: what?  when did i do that?  but i didn't accept it!

me: if YOU create the calendar item, YOU do NOT have to accept it, because it's ALREADY on YOUR calendar.  it's like magic.

bacon: oh.  but i still don't remember setting up the... oh.  shoot, i think i do remember setting up the meeting now.  well darn it all.  i get so confused with this calendar stuff.

me: yah, i can definitely see that.  maybe you could get someone to do a training session for you.

bacon: oh!  that's a great idea!  i've been trying to come up with some firmwide training sessions and that would be a super one.  i'm SURE i'm not the only one with these calendar issues.

me: ah right yup why don't you work on that i'm gonna go now.

bacon: thank you SO much for your help!!!  you're a lifesaver!

she had to yell that last part at me since i'd already skeedaddled out of her office at lightning speed so she couldn't see my face convulsing from imagining the entire firm gathering around for a training on how to use our calendars.  impossible.  i would die from laughter, or get myself fired for spontaneously combusting into a pile of laughing mush from trying to hold in the laughter.  ah must stop thinking about it now.  i'm smirking and twitching just typing about it.  time to calm down with some more coffee and email deletions.  yay!  happy wednesday.