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July 1, 2003

LEMON

A work colleague has recently got married and her surname is now Lemon. She has just announced that she is pregnant and during a particularly stressful day for me, all the women in the office were standing by her desk (pretty much opposite mine) and were offering their thoughts on choice of baby name.

"I think BEN Lemon sounds like a really nice name" one said, as she fiddled with her hair and gazed admiringly at Mrs Lemon.

"I think CHARLIE would be good, I like the name Charlie" another added, picking up the maternity clothes magazine off the desk.

Meanwhile, I had been distracted from my spreadsheet and lost the calculation I had been doing. I couldn't help but listen to the rest of the conversation, slowly getting more and more irritated by the soppy, broody women.

"Well what if it's a girl?" yet another asked, sauntering over. "Natasha is a really beautiful girl's name. Natasha Lemon, I really like that".

"Victoria's nice".

"I think Susannah". They were all at it now, I had a deadline to meet and couldn't concentrate.

"If it's a boy, I still think you should call him Ben". "No, I think Charlie". At this point I lost it and announced:

"Look, why don't you just call it JIF?"

Posted by jonola14 at July 1, 2003 9:54 PM