A Weird Thought I Have In Meetings Sometimes

    (It's just a thought)

    Sometimes, when I'm in meetings, I wonder what would happen...

    ...if I pulled down my trousers and just stood there.

    Naked from the waist down (the worst sort of naked).

    How would my colleagues react? Would they laugh? Scream? Go silent?

    Wrestle me out the door?

    Or would they just politely pretend nothing was happening.

    And then a few weeks later I would get a letter saying regrettably my contract was not going to be renewed.

    And a month later there would be leaving drinks.

    And as we chatted awkwardly, cradling our plastic glasses of warm white wine, they would all be praying for me to Please God just leave the building quietly and never come back.

    But it's just a thought I have in meetings sometimes.