Rumors

This morning was like any other morning. I physically got out of bed after about 4 times of pressing the snooze button, washed my face, and then hopped right back into bed. Three weeks into the spring semester and I still cannot get into the habit of waking up early. After figuring that I had exactly 20 minutes to be at work was when I actually started to get ready. I time it so that I get to any event either just in time or maybe a few minutes late (It’s such a bad habit!). And this supposedly was my new year’s resolution and I have yet to arrive to any event earlier than what it is scheduled to be. Obviously, it hasn’t worked out for me at all.

In any case I arrived to work at 8:03 a.m., falling 4 minutes short of the grace period, 4 good minutes that I could have used for sleeping! But this morning I realized that a friend of mine was working the same shift. I am a student worker at the Downtown Phoenix IT helpdesk located in the library and you could imagine just how dull it can get in the morning, so I was very glad to see her. So to keep each other awake we of course started to chismiar as we call it in Spanish, or in other words gossip. She began to tell me that one of the staff’s birthday had just been this past Saturday and told me how old he had turned.
I replied back, “Wow! He must have had his daughter really young!”
She became more interested and said, “What! He has a kid? I didn’t know that!”
I began to explain to her that one day he had brought his wife and daughter to work. This conversation ended at that and we each carried on with our daily tasks.
A few minutes later I receive my first call of the day and I answer, “Helpdesk, Diana speaking, how may I help you?”
The guy at the other end answered, “Yea hi Diana, so I hear you’re spreading rumors about me.”
I quickly think oops, what did I do this time. And he went on to say, “Elizabeth tells me that you think I have a daughter.”
I automatically think uh oh then who was that lady I saw him with, I didn’t want to say more because already I had said and assumed too much but still continued.
“Yea, didn’t you bring your wife and daughter by the other day?”
He pauses for a while, “Uhh that was my sister and my friend”.
I thought to myself aw man not only did I just make him feel awkward by assuming that his sister was his wife but I also insulted him by thinking he could have a daughter that old. I felt my face grow hot. We both started cracking up but apparently there were no hard feelings as he even gave me a piece of his birthday cake after that whole misunderstanding :).