Coworker Pee
I work with several really smart, attractive women. Generally, everyone acts in a very professional way.
The other day, though, one of my colleagues came back to her desk around 12:30 or so. I had not seen her all day, but had a somewhat time sensitive question about a project we were working on together. I could tell that she was rushing a bit to her desk, but figured she might be headed off to another meeting. However, I figured it couldn't hurt to see if I could ask her a quick question. "Rachel. Can I ask you a very quick question about the [redacted] project?" She hesitated but agreed. "Sure, quickly though."
We ducked into a nearby conference room. My quick question was in practice straightforward, but led to a bit of a discussion (about 10 or 15 minutes). I couldn't really sense anything wrong, but while I was mid-sentence, Rachel interrupted me. "I'm sorry, but I really need to pee". She dashed out without another word. When she came back, she apologized and explained that she had been in back to back meetings for 4 hours straight ... "we are all human".
It's interesting, because I have never seen my coworker desperate before (that I knew of) and desperate enough to leave mid-sentence. I've wondered to myself why she chose that moment to walk out of the room? Did she leak? Did she just have a very good sense of where her breaking point was? It was very much unlike her to interrupt.
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