Demented Apprentice

Work at Aamco can be rather strenuous. Don't worry, I'm not going to bother you about how trying it can be to have the same person call 5 times in a row, or have everyone call for a status on their car, or try to locate a file that wasn't filed correctly; Na, I'll skip that. I won't even mention it. Though work at Aamco today was strenuous, aside from having lunch, it was one of the most fun days in a long time. I know that sounds rather contradictory, but it might make sense in a minute. (Disclaimer: I said "might")

As most of you probably know already, I am an accountant.......in progress. Working with the guidance of a professional accountant named Debbie, I have gained a lot of experience and am getting to know the ropes of book keeping pretty well.

Now, Debbie is a fun character who knows her stuff and loves doing it. She and I get along great together; perhaps even a little too well. From about 9:40 am to about 2:30ish, we had been doing some intense reconciling with only about 15 minutes break for lunch. Unsurprisingly, our brains were probably a little more frazzled than normal. We both started laughing at the pettiest things, even at mistakes that we were finding (which wasn't really funny, but it really was at the same time.)

Just FYI, if you were talking normally in the back office and the door was open, you could usually be heard in the front office where we receive the customers. But, of course, Debbie and I were not talking/laughing hysterically at normal voice level.

"Bleep, bleep, bleep," Connie, an office assistant, turned on the intercom to my desk and said jokingly, "You better control yourselves, I have a customer in here." But the real kicker is that the customer was a psychologist! What are the odds that the one time Debbie and I have fits of uncontrollable laughter, the customer in the front office is a psychologist?!