Regrettably, Ms. Wren’s job covers the bad parts of love as well. She’s just as likely to supervise a breakup as she is to supervise love at first sight. On the plus side, this seems to be proof that she[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sometimes one can’t get too one’s office to catch the memo the boss sent. At least he arrived early enough that the information is still valuable… not that that’s going to stop him from trying to overcompensate, just to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It looks like getting to the meeting early was not as sensible a precaution as Mr. Zhu had planned. Now he’s stuck in a meet room for as long as a large and determined office worker says. Speaking of that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even getting to the meeting a few minutes after the alleged starting time was not late enough to keep Mr. Lo waiting just as long as everybody else. Considering who Mr. Lo’s girlfriend is… no, an avatar of death probably[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, I admit it. I was being a pretentious, pseudo-intellectual git and tried to squeeze in a reference to Sartre’s play, No Exit into the joke. The trick is to make the reference vague enough that what Mr. Lo is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’re back to the Department of Minor nuisances, and for them, it’s the day after their last meeting. Despite all of the difficulties related to that meeting, it still seems strange that Mr. Lo would let Mr. Zhu and Mr.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We haven’t heard much from Mr. Zhu, Mr. Ying, and the rest of the department, since their brainstorming session with Mr. Moroni, but it is now Go Time! We don’t know just what they have planned for the Circle Band[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I almost scrapped this joke because, even by the standards of The Department of Minor Nuisances, it strained credibility. Where would they get the monkeys from, have them escape from the zoo? Then it occurred to me that lab animals,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For the record, Wendy, the woman Mr. Ying never heard of, has appeared before. She’s one of the two women, I’ve always referred to as “Michelle’s posse” who serve as someone for Michelle to talk to and sing backup. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
