I love to laugh. Loudly and hysterically if I can. I have been told that I have an infectious laugh. I tend to think that it’s because most people start laughing AT me, not with me….
I tend to laugh hardest at Tanner these days. Today was absolutely no exception.
Most conversations happen on IM these days, we are busy folks. (sure!) So this leaves all tonality and inflection to the imagination of the reader. This ensues with much hilarity.
So Tanner has decided to quit smoking and get healthy before she turns 40. Which is in the next 30 days. So Tanner is going to undo 39 years of debauchery and abuse in the next 4 weeks.
She has quit smoking.
She has given up sugar.
She has given up caffeine.
She has given up junk food.
She is allergic to duct tape. (more on that to come)
She is apparently ready to give up all known friendships.
And she apparently loves fruit.
However, as a co-worker found out today….fruit does not exactly love her.
So, we are IM’ing today…she has decided to take an innocent remark that I made and run ’round the left with it…so once I brought her back, got myself off the ledge and made sure everything was ok, our conversation got absolutely hysterical…
Tanner informs me that she is simply cranky because she wants a cigarette. Either to smoke, gnaw on or digest, it apparently doesn’t matter at that point, she wants the Marlboro man to ride in on his horse and rescue her. Her Nicoderm patch apparently is repelled by her skin (probably the fruit!) and she has resorted to DUCT taping the patch to her arm.
She is, by the end of the day, having an allergic reaction to the duct tape. Which only furthers her need for a cigarette, a Dr Pepper and a bag of chips.
I feel for her co-workers…and the poor dogs.
She then informs me that fruit is not her friend. Nor the friend of her co-workers as it tends to make her quite gaseous. And when I am reading this for myself, I start laughing.
And it gets harder to breathe. Or talk. My co-workers had to come check on ME because I was damn near laying in the floor.
Tanner is a turd of the highest order. She kept asking her co-worker to “pull her finger” and giggling like a 7-year-old boy when the co-worker did so. Last I heard, they were closing the office early, due to carbon monoxide poisoning. Not nice Tanner. Not nice at all.
I don’t think that’s how you go about getting promotions, I could be wrong, but farting on employees isn’t quite kosher…
I tried to encourage her to quit smoking. However, the sugar-free, caffeine-free, junk food-free change in life was all her. I suggested maybe not all at once, but to “wean” her body away from the toxic amounts of crap she has ingested.
Going cold turkey all the way, well that just leaves you hungry, bitter and well…non-sexed. You may end up slimmer, trimmer and fitting into those jeans from high school….but you are not gonna have a friend left. And your family has already decided they like me so much more than you….you may want to rethink it.
I gave up caffeine in January, I don’t eat a whole bunch of junk, but I don’t deny myself a burger now and then. I have started smoking again after a 3 year sabbatical (boo hiss on me, I know) but I can put it back down pretty easy. So I am not worried about how the lack of nicotine affects me. Plus, well, I will be Tanner’s only friend, so I am golden, correct?
So back to our conversation, she is telling me about the fruit farts, how her co-workers are dying slow deaths in the office and she’s just sitting in it. Laughing and grabbing more grapes. I keep telling you. Turd.Highest.Order.
I now have a mental picture of Tanner, by the end of the week…
She is in her closet.
There are Dr Pepper cans strewn about.
She has potato chip crumbs in her hair and grease on her face.
With pieces of duct tape mixed in with the chips.
And the whole time, she is mumbling about “cleaner living by 40.”
THAT image sent me over the edge.





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