Laziness and Shifting Responsibilities

One good way of being like a heel wrestler in daily life is simply being lazy.  In the office I like to be close to some object like a folder, but ask someone much further away than me to get the object for me.  It's inexcusable, which is why I do it.

Also it's fun to attempt to put responsibilities on people when the responsibility shouldn't lie on them at all.  Like even though I lie to my coworker on a daily basis about stupid stuff, I tell her (falsely) that there's a perfectly good explanation of why I lie about a lot of stuff, and it's her responsibility to listen closely to my explanation behind all of my lies even though it's going to take about four to six hours to explain the reasoning behind it.  

She came up with one of the best responses ever to attempts to justify elaborate lies like this.  Typically she holds her hand high in the air without saying anything.  The first time she did this I asked why she was holding her hand up, and she said it was getting too deep in the room and she wanted to protect her watch so her watch wouldn't drown in it.  Other times she'll say to another coworker, "Hopefully you bought a snorkel today because it's getting REALLY deep in here!"  When the stupid stuff I say is off the charts, she starts saying she's going to need a submarine.

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