Today was departmental out-to-lunch day. Yay! We love free lunches at semi-expensive chain restaurants. Actually, I've been kind of enjoying these big lunch things only because I've started to notice how weird they can be. After all, you're taking a whole bunch of people who mainly only interact in a work environment out of the work environment. What happens is a lot of people sitting there looking around, with nothing to say to anyone else. Depending on who you sit with and how well you like you're co-workers, those out-to-lunch things can be kind of awkward.

And speaking of whose sitting next to you, the lunch thing is always fun because of the little element of High School-ness that enters into it. What I mean by that is that the biggest thing at these lunches is who sits where and who rides with whom. Especially if you're in week two of your employment. Everybody wants to sit with the cool work kids and nobody wants to sit the uncool, even creepy, work kids. And there's always one or two of the creepy variety in every work environment.

In my office, there's one woman there in her 50's so she stands out because everyone else in the department is either in there 20's or 30's. She's also new to her position and still kind of feeling her way in a position that's really hard to do if you don't know you're way around (actually, it's doing what I do). In other words, she's the uncool kid. The way uncool kid. All day before lunch I'd be thinking to myself "you're gonna get stuck with her…you're gonna get stuck with her" because the newbies always get stuck with the uncool kids. It's in every teen flick ever made. Even Lindsey Lohan got stuck with the uncool kids in "Mean Girls." So I was going to make an effort not to get stuck with riding over to the restaurant and not getting stuck sitting with her at the end of the table.

Naturally, I got a ride with her and got stuck at the end of the table with her.

And all you people out there who think I'm awful for writing this can't tell me that when they go out for lunch like that with the whole department, you really don't mind sitting with Sanjay the Engineer and the sexually ambiguous guy in his mid-40's who still lives with his mother.