I don't think I've mentioned here yet that I've started working out of the Montreal office more and more. I still go to Ottawa for work, but not as often, and since the Montreal office is so wonderfully close to our place, I actually walk to and from work now when I'm here.
Now, I love everything about this new arrangement except for one little detail:
I am notorious for forgetting my umbrella at home. No, scratch that. I bring my umbrella, I just bring it on the days it's not raining. I can carry it for a week to and from work and that week the clouds will not shed a drop. Then I'll forget it and before I head home that afternoon, I'll look out the window and it'll be pouring away. So, I'll go into the Pharmaprix in the plaza downstairs and buy an umbrella - and use it that day before the cycle begins again.
I don't dare get up and count the number of umbrellas M and I have at home, but my guess is that the number is around 7 or 8- and we're two (2!) people. And I'm pretty sure 4 of those were purchased in the last month. By me.
Case in point: yesterday I checked the weather - no rain expected on Monday, but rain expected today. No worries, I would take my brolly today.
And then today happened, and while I was packing my lunch, I remembered that I need the umbrella, but by the time I was done, I'd totally forgotten. and then it wasn't raining in the morning, so I didn't notice when I left the building.
Then, this afternoon as I was heading back from work, I left the office and it was dripping. I walked 100 feet, turned around and went back inside to the Pharmaprix to buy yet ANOTHER umbrella. And then I walked the rest of the way to my errand, did my errand, and walked home without needing it at all. The moment I had the umbrella, the rain stopped. Go figure.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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How about keeping one of the seven umbrellas in the office ?
actually not a bad idea (now that I have so many of them. Ha!)
The catch is, I have to remember to "re-stock" if I take it home one night when *attempt* to apply this system :)
When restocking - you could try to always leave it by the door or put your keys underneath it. That way you'd have to notice it on your way out. & I'd say, leave 2 at the office, now that you have so many, so that if once you don't restock, you've got a back up.
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very smart my dear. I should keep two at the office. Well, right now I have one there, so it's a start, right?
I keep an umbrella under my car seat, but I virtulaly never remeber to take it with me.
SAW, it's basically impossible :)
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