While preparing my tea in the company lunchroom this morning, I realized that the water cooler was completely empty. I was in the middle of a conversation with Caitlin and another coworker of ours when I made this discovery, and I decided to just quickly change the five-gallon jug myself. I hauled the new water jug across the lunchroom to the cooler, and proceeded to remove the large plastic cap.
Seeing what I was about to do and noticing that I was teetering around on little high heels, my coworker offered to help me.
“What,” I snapped. “Do I not look manly enough? Do you think I am not capable of doing this myself?”
He backed off immediately and continued to chat with Caitlin. I heaved the water jug up to the cooler, positioned it to fall neatly into place, and flipped it over.
Water gushed everywhere. I somehow got the top of the jug caught on the cooler and was unable to drop it into place. Water sloshed all over the wall, the floor, the counter, and my outfit. The laughter from my audience came immediately.
“Oh yes,” my coworker remarked as he left the room. “You look perfectly capable.”
I frequently change our enormous water cooler bottle by myself in high heels. It’s all about lifting with the lower body, baby. wink wink.
Jen F.