there’s this silver-haired guy who reminds me immensely of my brother in law (I call him Tech Michael for that reason) – very VERY smart, very personable, also suitably mysterious – someone I admire from a distance but who knows my name so it makes for an odd brand of hero worship –

anyway today I was getting water at the cooler and who should come along but Tech Michael and he stands between the water cooler and the coffee machine, which is a very small space, barely me-sized – and I realized I was sort of trapping him so I moved away and let him out, and hollered playfully after him, “sorry, didn’t mean to trap you there”

and over his shoulder from around the corner he goes

“oh…it was…enjoyable…”