Appropriate Tuesday

After a recent escalation of office gossipping and shocking language, today was dubbed Appropriate Tuesday and my colleagues were asked to maintain decorum and dignity at all times. However after a subdued morning, things went horribly wrong at afternoon tea time when one inhabitant of my room was communicating down the corridor to a male colleague. Just as he shouted out "wiggle your botty", a woman emerged from a side-corridor and was shocked and startled, and would have been mortified, unsure whether she was the intended recipient of the request. It demonstrates that a whole day of acting appropriately was unrealistic from the start - next time we'll aim to survive a morning.