Cool but rude

[cosmolinguist]

As a remote-working team, mine likes to have a quick catch-up every morning. Today me and one other person were the only ones who joined it. And I can have good chats with everyone I work with, but this may be my favorite teammate.

A fact illustrated by the first thing she said: "I did have a non-work question for you. Do you know about teenage mutant...." and before she finished the questions I said "I LOVED Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a kid."

Delightful silly conversation ensues.

When I was tidying up my open browser tabs later in the day, I was very amused to find that I still had the Wikipedia page for Raphael brackets ninja turtle there. I'd started by trying to search the details of a movie I saw the trailer for when we went to see Barbie (ah yes, the two genders of my 80s childhood) and I ended up on this Wikipedia page reading out

The origin of Raphael's anger is not always fully explored, but in some incarnations appears to stem partly from the realization that they are the only creatures of their kind and ultimately alone, while also bothered by the injustice the helpless and innocent suffer.

Lots going on there!

The rest of our conversation was silly and giggly as we tend to be -- there's a costume party, the change of the couples costume idea by the friend she's going with who's worried that being a sheet ghost might have made her look too much like a KKK member on a bus (in Cambridgeshire...) and the resultant accidentally-sexy ninja turtle costumes... It was a much better start to the work day than I was expecting.