My husband took a half-day off work today, and I fear that I, his home-based business wife, might unfortunately have to gag him. Or ban him from the house at the very least. Because he seems to think that because my office is down the hall and not an hour’s commute away, that I am in here typing away because it keeps my fingers in good shape.
Perhaps he fails to register that when I am in my office I am at work because my working environment is so different from his. All I need is a computer and a telephone; as a lab technician, he doesn’t feel at work unless surrounded by mysteriously shaped bottles of varying sizes, and substances that could kill a man at twenty paces if improperly used. Perhaps if I could find some way to make my small and tidy office smell the way he does when he comes home after a day’s work, it would finally sink into his scientist’s brain that what I am doing constitutes as work too.
Perhaps it’s that he uses his computer for fun, maybe he thinks I’m in here playing games or tracking down Star Trek memorabilia on the web. Maybe if I wore a lab coat while I typed. Does anyone know how to communicate effectively with a geek? Or how to shut one up when you are trying to get stuff done?
I should have started a business that sells isolation booths. I know I’d buy one.
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