Fabulous and the Pakistani Fellow

My office is populated by a diverse number of characters. All of us attempting to make a name for ourselves and climb out of the relatively obscurity within which we live. In any event, they are a good bunch. One of the best is Simply Fabulous who works in my programme. She is brilliant. Basically, Daddy is very wealthy and she has perfect taste and really, what more can a gay man want than a smart, blonde, wealthy friend with taste! We get on like peas in a pod, only that I have to remind her every so often that while, yes, I am not poor, I also do not have enough money to live in Belgravia and shop endlessly at Harrods. But I can dream.

So, we have this Pakistani Fellow in our office visiting for the year. This has been quite an experience because frankly he has never heard for ‘grooming’. Quite frankly, he stinks to high heaven. It is horrifific. All winter we had the windows open and now that summer is here (supposedly) we have the windows open and the fans on. Which is funny, because our Pakistani fellow has a fan behind him blowing all the stench onto another fellow from Taiwan. This results in a lot of hilarity when the Taiwanese fellow cracks jokes about the Pakistani fellow. Maybe you have to be there. I have now been subjected to rants from Fabulous for months about the Pakistani fellow. The best one was probably this, which caused me to spurt tea out of my nose. It read:

Subject: Sad News

News Bulletin

Simply Fabulous, Research Associate extraordinaire at the **** Institute, died today due to overexposure to toxic fumes. Reports are circulating that she was found slumped over her desk, clutching her favourite pair of Manolos for comfort in what must have been a frantic struggle for survival. The fumes are said to have originated from Pakistan.

Enough Said

~ by ctyke on July 11, 2008.