David Roddis
Jan 7, 2022

ASAP. Ugh. In business this meant, "Screw the timeline you created as the project manager, I'll tell the client they can see the revisions in an hour."

(They can't, because it will take the time I allocated - but now, thanks to you, the client will perceive that we're disorganized and unable to meet deadlines.)

And post-work, this has evolved - devolved? - into that hideous phrase encountered everywhere in the gay online dating universe: "looking for now."

As in, "OK, I can be at your place in half an hour (seeing as you live across town)."

"Oh, sorry. Looking for now."

Feeling so.... fungible....

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David Roddis
David Roddis

Written by David Roddis

I raise one bushy eyebrow and view the world through rainbow lenses. I want to inform, entertain, and surprise you. Proud queer Canadian, closet Boomer.

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