There is no spoon

Right now I have headphones on and am tuned in to whatever Pandora.com is sending my way. Work has been ridiculous lately and I haven't blogged about it because I try not to blog angry. So for today I would like to just calmly share with you what I've been going through.

Let's say it's your job to teach people the rules to "Rock, Paper, Scissors." Let's also say that the people you are teaching this to already know how to play. Your job should be pretty easy, right? You think, hey, I'll go over the rules again and everyone should be good to go.

Then one of your coworkers says, "What about spoon?"

You say, "What? Spoon? What are you talking about?"

They say, "Well, what if they ask about spoon? Shouldn't we show them that?"

And you say, "No. Spoon has no place here. We are talking about rock, paper, scissors. These, and only these items, are what we need to teach them. They cannot use spoon."

"But sometimes they do what they're not supposed to and invent new games and what if they invent a new game with spoon?"

This is essentially what I've been dealing with. I very much want to hit people with "rock". Have a nice Valentine's Day everyone!