alliteration alert: cubicle coupling

mason: for those of you keeping track, this is two posts in as many hours. if this doesn't demonstrate our new found dedication to betting, lunching and reviewing, i don't know what will.

this article from today's redeye certainly brings back memories. for one, the sidebar begins by saying "make all the jokes you want about the dangers of dipping your pen in the company ink," which reminded me of the first thing my boss said when i officially outed my relationship with olive to him, which was "so I hear you've been fishing in the company pond."

i suppose the pool of "blanking in the company blank" references is pretty deep, but nevertheless, a memory was brought back, so it needed to be referenced here.

anyway, the article is filled with a bunch of unattributed but easy to read stats about the success rate of office relationships and other interesting tidbits that i'm sure were thoroughly researched by the redeye's industry leading fact checking department.

stat i wish i was a part of most: "17% of office lovers have been caught in the middle of an office tryst."

now technically a tryst is just a secret meeting -- of which olive and i had many -- but i think we all know what kind of secret meeting they're talking about. and sure, olive and i ran into co-workers on our way to and/or from lunches on a number of occasions, but there was never anything that screamed "we're secretly dating" about our interactions, like an empty bottle of hennigan's and an unkempt office.

makes you wonder what would have happened if certain scenarios would have been discovered by one or more of our coworkers. hopefully we would have been as lucky as the redeye article's feature couple, kate and steve, who are still together after pulling off a successful work romance despite steve's propensity for tuxedo t-shirts.