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So, today at work, we had cake for everyone's birthdays in September, October, November. Cake was handed out, and we were all eating.

10 seconds into my cake, a coworker turns, and gives me and a few guys a small stack of napkins. I understand the gesture, it's probably just a "ok, you have your plate, your fork, and now you need a napkin to make a place setting", but it's one of those things that just slightly irks me. Maybe she's expecting us to be messy, but it's cake, not the world's most difficult thing to jam down your cake hole.

I rarely take a napkin. In fact, I only take a napkin if I am in need of one, like when I spill food in my lap, or if I know I'm eating something messy. I don't just take a napkin to have waiting for me there, it just seems like a waste of effort and napkin resources. I'm imagining that every item is wasting precious use of Starcraft Terran Supply Depot. MINIMIZE THE USE OF RESOURCES! SHIT I'M OUT OF VESPENE GAS!

Anyway, it's hard to not seem like a jackass saying "no" to someone handing you a napkin. You just take it, and say 'thanks'. That napkin then gets jammed in your pocket, unused until you do laundry and you wonder why there are paper shreds throughout the wash.

Mood: Not Messy