Ten Things I Love About You ...

10. When I'm with you, I can let my hair down and be this totally fun, totally crazy chick.
9. You have held me and hugged me when I needed it the most ... when I felt I didn't have anyone else to hold me and hug me.
8. I can count on you to help me do what I need help in getting done.
7. You're my crazy accomplice, gossip/lunch buddy and at the same time, you can put on a work face to match that business suit and we can talk actual business when we need to.
6. Were it not for you, I would not be able (would not want to even!) to lookforward to sitting ar the same desk, upwards of eight hours a day, five days a week.
5. You tell me "you love me, you love me!!" in tweety bird voices! LOL
4. You make the most mundane of moments into 'memories'.
3. There is never EVER a boring moment when I am with you.
2. That's it.
1. I can only be so eloquent :)

Right now, I am sending out a lot of love to my team here at work. Crazy Luni with her curly hair and designer hadnbag fetish. Equally crazy Ate with her endearing little insecurities and her 'mother hen' instincts. Calm and collected Kaju, who us girls have totally converted and who now knows all about blowdries, manicures and Louis Vuitton. Marwan - the ex-army guy - who still hasn't been able to shake his formal demeanour and doesn't quite know what to make of this flock of super-hyper, super-shrill females. And finally 3nood who can be our partner in crime despite looking (and for the most part, acting) like she would be the last person on earth to -well - play any part in how we spend our office hours.

Take the crazy lunch ordering ordeal today.

Safa walks in and asks for a Chilli's menu. No one listens, so she starts screaming.

Safa: DOES ANYONE HAVE A CHILLI'S MENU?!!!!
BPC: Why?
Safa: Becasue I want pizza for lunch. We should all have pizza for lunch.
BPC: But Chilli's doesn't do pizza.
Safa: I know. I just want Pizza Hut's number.
BPC: Why the &#@$ do you need Chilli's menu to get Pizza Hut's number? What the *!&#^$?!!!

LOL. Turns out that Chilli's nad Pizza Hut are next door to each other and she thought it made sense to call Chilli's and have one of their waiters run out and get the Pizza Hut number for us. Erm, Safa, what is the 181 number for? The one where you call and they *GASP* tell you the phone number for companies you want the numbers for!

LOL

So any way ... as you would expect of seven people who have never shared a pizza before, a consensus sould not be reached on what kind of pizza(s) to order.

Chicken Supreme? Super Supreme? Ate wants just cheese and pepperoni. Thin crust or thick? Stuffed or not? Extra cheese or not? Mild spicy or extra hot? Pepsi regular or diet? Two mediums or two large? Three mediums or one large and one medium?

BPC called Pizza Hut for some laughs.

Pizza Hut: Pizza Hut, good afternooon!
BPC: We'd like to order pizza please.
Pizza Hut: Yes ma'am, your order please?
BPC: I want a Super Supreme large.
Pizza Hut: Yes ma'am. Anything else?
BPC: Yeah, I'm on a diet. Can you please not put any bread in my pizza.
Pizza Hut: (obviously confused) No bread? What do you mean ma'am?
BPC: You know, that bread thing you put under the pizza. Don't put it there. Make my pizza without the bread. No bread. Only pizza.
Pizza Hut: (long pause) But ma'am ... that is the pizza. It is bread with topping and cheese.
BPC: (impatiently) I know I know. I want no bread. Only pizza.
Pizza Hut: (longer pause) Ma'am, you mean you want only the topping with cheese?
BPC: (feigning extreme impatience) No no no ... why would i want to eat cheese and topping? I am on a diet! I want Pizza with no bread!!!!
Pizza Hut: (no response at all. very very very confused)

BPC is a model of compusure in the face of this dire hilarity, but her treacherous team gives her away. When you are in a room full of people rolling on the floor, holding their stomachs,doubled up with laughter ... that's a good time to end a prankcall.

After about 25 minutes, we did manage to decide on an order:

Two large half-and-half Pizzas.
One Super Supreme and Chicken Supreme,with plain thin crust, extra spicy
One super supreme and cheese/pepperoni, with stuffed thick crust, non-spicy
Cheese on second pizza to be both yellow and white, extra please
And less cheese on the first

Whew.


Um. The bill comes to 81 dirhams. How do you split that between 7 people?

That reminds me, I only have a credit card and no cash .....