Writing Prompt: You have under five minutes to write a short narrative beginning with "I never imagined the kind of trouble ____ would get me in..." - GO!
I never imagined the kind of trouble talking to her would get me in. Let me back up a bit. There is this colleague at office who is great at making matches. So he just goes around making matches. Say he sees a girl and he knows someone who is single, he tries to set them up. This is often done in a fun way, just to elicit participation from other colleagues so that they can poke fun at the unlucky guy. A week ago I was the target of this joke. There is this girl in our office who I have had a crush on and this colleague knows it. So he starts matching us and joking us. Now the other colleagues are relentless. They want me to go after her, talk to her. So today I pluck up the courage to talk to her. I go up and ask her name. She responds and I tell her that I think she is pretty. She looks rather impressed and asks me my name. I tell it to her. When I get back to my desk I find an email from the HR telling me that a harassment complaint has been made against me and I should appear at the HR desk at 17:30 hours. I am screwed.
I never imagined the kind of trouble talking to her would get me in. Let me back up a bit. There is this colleague at office who is great at making matches. So he just goes around making matches. Say he sees a girl and he knows someone who is single, he tries to set them up. This is often done in a fun way, just to elicit participation from other colleagues so that they can poke fun at the unlucky guy. A week ago I was the target of this joke. There is this girl in our office who I have had a crush on and this colleague knows it. So he starts matching us and joking us. Now the other colleagues are relentless. They want me to go after her, talk to her. So today I pluck up the courage to talk to her. I go up and ask her name. She responds and I tell her that I think she is pretty. She looks rather impressed and asks me my name. I tell it to her. When I get back to my desk I find an email from the HR telling me that a harassment complaint has been made against me and I should appear at the HR desk at 17:30 hours. I am screwed.
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