Friday, October 21, 2011

Origin of The Angry Monkey™

First of all, let's get a small matter of housekeeping out of the way.

It's "The Angry Monkey™". Like "A Pimp Named Slickback", "A Tribe Called Quest", and "The Artist Formerly Known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince", you say the whole thing. OK, maybe not the last one because that is just ridiculous.

Anyway, I wanted to take a moment to clear up any confusion there might be surrounding where The Angry Monkey™ came from. While The Angry Monkey™ was born in the workplace; he has not always been the champion of the disgruntled employee that he is now. No, he had a more inauspicious beginning than that... He was born in the women's restroom.

Now, it's to be expected that a public restroom is not as clean as one found in an individual's home. (Personally, my favorite fragrance is bleach so I use it liberally in my bathroom, but your habits may vary.) And with so many people using a public restroom, it is also to be expected that the cleaning staff might sometimes get behind in restroom upkeep. But this is something usually seen in places with excessive amounts off traffic such as sports stadiums, shopping malls, and movie theaters. Places where anyone and everyone passes through at will. On the other hand, you generally expect office buildings to have nicer, more pleasant restrooms. As office buildings are full of professional type people who have images of professionalism and cleanliness to maintain. Well, not at my office. The ladies' restroom for the floor I work on is the most disgusting one I have ever seen outside of a Wal-Mart. So there is only one way to describe it...
"This place smells like someone locked a monkey in here over the weekend and he got very, very angry."

And now you know the rest of the story.

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