Local Girl Becomes One With Her Apple

So it's the first day for the Smoot in the new office and, through a series of circumstances too long-winded to get into, also the first day in a new organisation. I am one of the new kids in the playground, and I hope to make some friends soon.

It was a bit of a shocker to arrive this morning at my new desk, still strewn with unpacked and unsorted debris from my previous office, to find an apple sitting uncomfortably in the middle of the whole mess. I didn't know who to thank for it, so I thanked no one. Sometime during the office orientation exercise that followed, I was informed that everyone in the office gets a fruit on Monday for their private consumption, so that we can all be shiny happy people together. Another part of the office orientation exercise instructed us on what to do if the apple is still sitting on our desk uneaten at close of business on Monday - clearly not a happy scenario for the apple or the apowner of the apple. So it is with some reluctance and not a little bit of fear that I am now in the process of consuming my apple, having had the unmitigated temerity to wait until half the day had passed.

I now recall with even further trepidation another part of the induction process where we were clearly told not to eat at our desks, which means that my current attempt to follow one office rule has led to my flagrant breach of another one.

Plus I just dropped the apple on the floor dammit