I had a really amusing water cooler moment at work yesterday. I was heading to fill my decently sized water bottle at the same time this man was coming to fill his bottle, which was a little over half the size of my bottle. We saw each other heading in the same direction and we both stop.

“Ladies first.” He tells me, gesturing toward the water cooler.

“Mine’s bigger than yours.” I say, waving him toward it. Obviously I’m thinking that it makes sense for him to go first because it will take him less time. But he starts to smile, and my brain realizes what I’ve done. “I… didn’t mean for it to come out like that.”

Laughing, he says, “Hashtag me too? Can I say that?”

“Well, do you feel harassed? Although in my defense, there’s no arguing that objectively, my water bottle is bigger than yours. Other than that, well, there’s just no way of knowing!”

This said, I laughed, and he did too, though there was the tiniest of flicks of his eyes downward. I don’t think that’s how he thought I was going to finish that and had a ‘wait what?’ moment but ¯_(^‿^)_/¯

And by that time, I had finished filling my water bottle, so I walked away from the water cooler, thus ending the water cooler moment.

AHAHAHHA! He just walked by and called me ‘Trouble’ and I asked a coworker who he was and he’s a boss of a boss of another unit. Omg XD