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You don’t pick people for two things: your family and your job. Coworkers come as part of the package, bottom line.

And although sometimes a workplace is a perfect place to make connections and lasting friendships, other times the people you see 5 days a week can really, I mean, really get on your nerves. Whether your colleagues are always talking, always on their phone, or just always in your way, they can make your workday longer and harder.

We can’t control other people’s behavior, but we can surely vent about it. And since annoying coworkers are basically a universally relatable thing, no wonder the hashtag #ThingsAnnoyingCoworkersDo hit way too close to the bone for many people on Twitter. So pull your seat closer, we’re about to look at the funniest tweets people shared.

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KING ILLEGAL FOREST
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And leaving stinky food in the fridge for so long it's pretty much developed into its own ecosystem, then get mad you threw out their "good tupperware."

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Do you have a coworker who is always talking? Or one who is always asking for favors? Maybe you have a coworker who is always trying to be the boss. Whatever the case may be, we all have that one coworker who is just plain annoying. If you're lucky, you can just avoid that person. But sometimes, you have to work with them on projects or tasks. And that can be torture.

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But if you happen to already be in that situation where a colleague is getting on your nerves, you may want to think about a couple of things. First, it’s important to stay polite, whatever happens. Even if they are driving you crazy, it's important to be polite. Just bite your tongue and try to get through the interaction. In this way, you’ll make sure they don’t ruin your reputation.

A second useful tip is not getting drawn into their drama. If they are always complaining or starting arguments, just walk away. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh yes when this happens you should say "maybe you should act your wage Karen"

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If your lunch choice is a fish dish that you reheat in the communal microwave then your choices deserve to be judged.

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Setting boundaries is also crucial when dealing with annoying coworkers. If they are always asking for favors, make it clear that you're not going to do everything they ask. Set some limits so that you don't end up doing all the work. You may also want to make sure you keep your distance. Remember that you don't have to be best friends with this person. Just keep your interactions to a minimum and whenever they’re needed.

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Laura Ketteridge
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah.. this one would be brought up with HR immediately. I'm crazy, but I value being able to breathe very highly. Cologne etc sets of my asthma, and it is not fun.

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If you feel like you're stuck in the corner and there’s not much to be done, the only option may be to talk to your boss or manager. They may be able to help you resolve the issue.

And after all, every workplace has its quirks: whether it’s the workings of the company, the flawed management or the people you have to work with, no work is perfect. Dealing with annoying coworkers may be tiring, to say the least, but in the end, it’s part of life.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

same! or like checking the phone if i got an urgent text (since i haven't recieved any for the last 10 years lol)

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Greta Kolding
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Alternatively close the door and then have the person 40 feet away accusing you of "slamming the door in her face". This happens too you know.

Richard Anderson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hold the door just to have an excuse to stand around and do nothing for awhile.

Delaney Proctor
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just don't speed up. Like at all. If anything I slow down a little.

Yvette Desmarais
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Screw that. I never run for that. Stand there all day for all I care.

Micah
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just wave those people off, demonstrating I have at least one arm with a hand, and that they're most likely strong enough to open a door.

Laura Osborne
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just say "no rush, take your time" if I'm holding the door open for someone and they're further away than I thought. If I am in a rush (not often, I'm usually on my way into work!) I let the door go.

TVLA
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah I take my sweet sweet time for people that do this… while looking them dead in the eyes. 😈

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would love to have hover cats as coworkers, people not so much.

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Steve
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's when you need to have American Psycho next to your lunch as reading material.

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Meanwhile, according to Christine Mitterbauer, a licensed and ICF-approved career coach and serial entrepreneur, “it’s important that you stand your ground and don’t let yourself be intimidated by difficult coworkers, whether they’re negative, talking down to you, or making your work difficult in any other way.”

“Of course, you can try to interact as little as possible with the coworker, but that isn’t always possible,” the career coach added. Moreover, a great skill to practice is becoming better at having difficult conversations, she told us in an earlier interview.

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“Stick to negative behavior as that’s more objective and can more easily be verified by everyone involved. Practice exactly what you want to say beforehand, and consider getting other allies on board as well. Sometimes it is necessary to involve management, but it’s often better to only do this once you can demonstrate to the manager what you yourself have attempted to tackle the issue,” the career coach explained.

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

God, the f*****g forward to all s**t. If it doesn’t concern me, do NOT junk up my inbox with your b******t.

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Annemarie Mattheyse
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

THIS ^ I once had a cubicle neighbor who was in sales. He was on the phone ALL THE TIME, and had an extremely loud voice. I got over-ear headphones. They barely helped.

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Steve
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In most places where you're underpaid, you're only earning your wage.

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Justme
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I won’t do a whole manicure- but I’ll clip a single nail that’s bothering me. Sometimes I do t realize it needs attention until I start typing on my keyboard.

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then sing along with it out loud when they can’t carry a tune if it had a handle.

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Justme
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This and the people who go around saying “It’s Friday!”. Yeah, I know, I have a calendar.

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Nathaniel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oops Kerry again. I am remembering just how much I dislike Kerry again because of this thread.

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Jessi Lovely
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Savages. Although if you don’t know you may get a placebo caffeine effect 🤷🏽‍♀️ 🤞

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had manuals (publications) that covered every thing you could conceivably have happen in my job in the military. If you were a good worker and tried hard as a new guy/gal, I’d show you how to do something. If you were lazy, I’d just tell you which publication it was in and ignore further questions. If you were REALLY lazy, and I didn’t like you, I’d tell you to “look in the pub” but not say which of the hundreds we had.

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Alison Marchand
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

UGH, it is so annoying when someone does this!!! As if everyone else is helpless and everything comes grinding to a halt when they're not there. Some people seem like they have some sort of martyr complex about it, I swear 🙄

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or go get another roll, but leave the empty on the roller and just put the new roll on top of it instead of putting it in the roller. WTF? It ain’t rocket science.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh yesss or worse their grandchildren 🤮🤮 I'm so sorry Becky I just don't f*****g careeeeee

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Where I work, we have those coffee capsules. Most people here don't even make their own coffee, they wait until the first person goes to the machine to make theirs, and then ask: "can you make one for me?". Laziness at its finest, drives me crazy!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A coworker showed me his kids baby photos and ASKED what I thought. The answer was 'just as ugly as her dad'.

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was usually the one who didn’t mind making some overtime, so would stay late. But once, just once, I decided it’d be nice to go home early, so declined when one of my coworkers with kids—-who f*****g NEVER stayed late and ALWAYS went home early, you know, pulling that “but you don’t have kids” entitlement s**t—-asked if I’d stay. When I said no, that just once I would like to be the one to go home early, she got all huffy and pissed off and asked me why I wouldn’t stay and let her go home to watch her kids go to sleep (s**t lady, they went to sleep the night before and will do it again the next night, so you can see them do another performance of the going to sleep play any night). Anyway, right before we got busy with a rush of customers, she disappeared. When we set up to clear the rush, I asked the manager where she was. He said she told him she was sick and had to go home, so I let her. When I told him of my conversation with her and her anger at my saying no right before she told him she was sick and left, he was PISSED OFF at her having played him like that, and told me he would make goddamn sure next time there was a chance to go home early, he’d offer it to me in private first before announcing it, so no one else could play childish spiteful games like that again. He said it was because he knew I never abused the privilege and generally would stay late, so deserved to go home early once in the great while when I wanted to. That next opportunity just happened to come up the very next time I was on the schedule with her, and you should’ve seen the look on her face as I packed up to leave early. The next day the manager told me she came into his office crying like she was sick again, and he told her he k ew what she had done to me, and that she was going to get a written warning if she lied to him about being sick so she could get out of work again. She never tried it again with me, it did try it with other coworkers. She didn’t last long.

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Catte West
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not as bad as a Walmart Cheer. Worked over 12 years, refused to ever do one, ever.

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Putting their dirty dishes in the sink and just leaving them there. I. Am. NOT. Your. Maid.

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Usually the very first thing in the morning too. Like, FFS. You couldn’t have done that at home BEFORE you got here?

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then never ever take it out. Especially if the company penny pinches and won’t hire cleaners, or only has them come in once a month.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This. This makes me angry enough to murder. I swear to god Darcy if you make one more "ahhhh" sound or lip smack I will throttle you until you can't make a single sound ever again!

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Mattewis88
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I add them, and promptly add them to the "Share with everyone but...." list. So they see nothing. They're basically staring at a year old FB page.

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Duesvolent90
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*Boss appears out of the wall* "Hey buddy, still got 4 seconds left." Yes the time to walk to and from my vehicle counts as me being at work so GTFO!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unless it's ice cream that's been forgotten in the freezer for a couple of weeks.

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Justme
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Naw I totally support this. Just don’t hound me for it and I’ll totally but what your kids selling.

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Josh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again, not washing their hands is nasty. But like... Jaysus people are just crotchety.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Going forward I'm just going to post D because Denise is just too many of these things

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Injun Joe
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yea, I got overlooked due to this. Never mind how much more work I've done, including making a list of 726 businesses in town with nearest hydrants and where the natural gas or electricity tie in at....

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always bought/brought (from home) my own office supplies, which I would not only label but also put in that one drawer every office desk has that I could lock when I left for the day. The manager knew I bought my own stuff, and had the same problem I had with coworkers who had a tendency to “borrow” but never return, thereby forcing you to go on a hunt for your stuff every morning (he also started locking his stuff up every day before he left). Anyway, there was that one clique of women in my department, who were always in and out of each other’s desk drawers getting pens and such, and didn’t mind it. I was not part of the clique, wasn’t part of that agreement, and minded it very much. One day, one of them came to my desk to ask me something, and suddenly, without asking, she’s opening my desk drawer to get a pen! I caught her at it and slammed the drawer shut, just narrowly missing her fingers. She got all pissy about it and reported it to the manager. Remember, the manager knew I bought and locked up my own supplies. When she went crying to him, the first question he asked her was, “did you ask her if you could open her desk drawer and borrow something BEFORE, or did you assume and just do it?” She tried to tell him she and her friends do it all the time. He said for her and her friends to continue doing it with each other, but to ASK everyone else FIRST. When she tried to complain about me slamming the drawer and almost crushing her fingers, he said her fingers had no reason to be in there in the first place, and that I was completely in the right. She tried to plea her case again with him, and he told her that I spend my OWN money buying my own supplies, and that if she took any of them from me, it would be theft and she, as well as anyone else, would be written up for it if they ever took any of my stuff without getting my explicit permission first. That shut her and her friends up, but good. I adored that manager for being so reasonable, understanding, and having my back like that.

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And are thoroughly convinced no one can tell they smoked inside (smoking dulls your sense of smell—-as well as taste—-so they truly cannot smell it, while non-smokers can detect it instantly).

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or decide THAT’S the day they want to clean up their desk that they haven’t touched since they were hired. Anything to get out of doing any real work.

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Injun Joe
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have this coworker that dissects a story he's telling. He does the ok?....ok?....ok?.. wouldn't be bad but dang it, this is the 5th time you tell this story and I really don't care about your wife treating you like c**p. Maybe it's you, Cedric, that is the problem.

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Giles McArdell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now you're annoying us about them annoying you about things their coworkers annoy them with.

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Steal it when you’re not around, more like. I swear you have to lock up and duct tape all your stuff when you leave your desk, or the f*****g vultures will pick it clean before you get back.

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Alison Marchand
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, if it's one of those passive-aggressive "wishing some people wouldn't act so fake..." or like "why can't certain people stay out of my business..." or some other typically attention-seeking status...🤷‍♀️

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Mattewis88
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is my boss and his minion... will complain about the smallest of things (fixing it would have taken less time than their little fit) but...leaves the toilet seat up, leaves dirty dishes, don't tidy up their area, dumps their stuff on everyone's desks, steals HDMI cables, hogs the kitchen for 2 hours chatting....and no one is allowed to say anything about it.

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James Heinle
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Co worker:"I got so drunk last night." Me:"You said that yesterday."