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My Office Is a Meat Locker

My office is a meat locker.
We could hang a hog in here for a week.
It would not become rancid or even warm.

My office is a meat locker.
I am dressed in long underwear
And four sweaters in eighty-eight-degree weather

My office is a meat locker.
The custodian is my best friend now.
She comes in here to cool off.

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Eve Roper

Date: 5/20/2022 1:23:00 PM

Enjoyed reading my friend. I think you’re running out of stuff to write. Blessings my friend

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/21/2022 6:01:00 AM

I have not run out yet

Jennifer Proxenos

Date: 5/20/2022 12:48:00 PM

A sinus sufferer, i suck lozenges most days, and although we live in Africa (South Africa) our temperatures are pretty good - not too may very hot days and not too many cold days. If I come to visit you in your office/meat locker, do you think you can ask for a heater to plug in???? You always give me a laugh Caren.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/21/2022 6:01:00 AM

Thank you Jennifer - this is so true!

Ilene Bauer

Date: 5/20/2022 11:01:00 AM

Lucky you! I’d rather wear 4 sweaters than be sweating 4 times over in 88 degree weather, Caren!

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/21/2022 6:02:00 AM

I love sweating; I am like a happy fat cat lounging in the hottest sun. I need to move to the equator.

L Milton Hankins

Date: 5/20/2022 10:35:00 AM

So, why is it so cold, Caren? I'd be perpetually sneezing!

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/21/2022 6:02:00 AM

I have inherited the "library's office" which is attached to the library through a small hallway. The blower is trying to cool off the library, but it can't because all the air comes to me and it cannot go out the door and around the corner at a ninety degree angle.