Everyday about 3.30 pm, the IT officer in my office would run the EOD(end of day). this means that for the next hour or so we can't use a certain programme. usually i got something else to do, but having finished doing it, a colleague gave me something new to do.
~after explaining what i had to do..
ken: okay, so you might find a counter in the portfolio that's not in here *points to a paper in my right hand* why?
sarah: *laughs* i don't know.
ken: *in a teacherly manner* imagine you're buying shares and yada yada yada yada...
*understanding ceases and imagination starts wandering, landing in a situation where hannah(my accounting student sister)is in my place instead and how they would be having a wonderfully account-y conversation*
*snaps back*
ken: you know what you did just now with that sheet right? *points to the paper in my right hand again* so now you know why?
sarah: *a lil taken aback, laughs nervously* i don't know what this sheet is, and i didn't really know what i was doing just now.
ken: *not giving up and starts explaining again*
realising he wouldnt quit until i got it, i stopped laughing and started trying to understand what he was talking about.
finally i somehow managed to give him the right answer and he was satisfied.
that conversation made my day(what's left of it anyway) because i laugh everytime i think of it. i don't know why. i was never an accounts person and it was like he was trying to explain accounts to a potato. as in, you're just wasting your time.
last day tomorrow! i relish the opportunity to be able to sleep in late again.
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