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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Serendipity

I was at the copier next to my cube this morning and overheard a conversation that I thought was hilarious. My co-worker (let's call her Sally) was explaining that her mother had taken in a stray cat recently. Believing this cat to be female, Sally's mom decided to name the cat Lola. It was later discovered that the cat was male and Sally was given the task of renaming the cat.
At this point, I was giggling and had to interject "Don't you dare change the name. Lola is perfect!" Sally did not see the irony. She's younger and wasn't really familiar with the Kinks' song. I had her look up the lyrics and all became clear.
Unfortunately, she still wants to change the cat's name.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

You'll be happy to know that I have never heard of the song.

11:18 AM

 
Blogger Aaron said...

Why doesn't that surprise me? You'd probably recognize it if you heard it. Wierd Al did his thing with it and called it Yoda.

12:11 PM

 
Blogger Dan said...

How could you never have heard that song before? You almost have to intentionally avoid it.

2:56 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You're right. I would probably recognize it if I hear it.

Meanwhile, I've been surprising everyone my whole life. Why stop now?

12:55 PM

 

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