The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.
Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

Badger That … - Office Mother Hen …
(nominated by Stray)

She has so many wonderful catchphrases that we introduced a game called “Mother Hen Bingo” last summer. As our Mother Hen is part time we have the morning to come up with which catchphrases she will use throughout the day.

I am livid - Sales meeting
(nominated by rachie)

There were no more racial slurs after that, and he focussed on explaining the sales situations at prospective clients by mocking Gypos and The Gays.

I’m not a girl, not yet a wino - six years
(nominated by asta)

With close ties to both NYC and DC, I sometimes feel like a failure that I wasn’t in either place at the time. I was in a hospital in central Florida without a television set. I didn’t see the towers fall until I got home that night, blocked by news sites that simply couldn’t hold the weight of the world’s interest. I didn’t bear witness like everyone else did that day. I’m still trying to.

Not Just Hiding - A day in the life
(nominated by An Unreliable Witness)

Two o’clock. My face is numb down one side and while the left side of my brain knows it’s an anxiety symptom the right is convinced of a stroke. Should I call someone? Call for help before it kills me? What? What do I do? Weigh it up against the potential embarrasment - that’s what.

Observer Woman Makes Me Spit - A Comedy of Errors
(nominated by Clare)

N: SAY anything? Oh darling don’t be ridiculous! Who knows what nonsense they might come out with! No no, we’ll put them on a grid - just like we do with the make-up reviews - and give them about ten words at a time, they can’t do much harm that way. Half a dozen questions - Lapdancing clubs - IN or OUT? Men - IN or OUT? That kind of thing.

Random Burblings - Pie, Our, Squared
(nominated by MisssyM)

H felt that it should be called “The Quest For Pie.” Actually, initially she suggested “The Quest Of Pie,” but I vetoed that straight away on the grounds of grammatical incorrectness. “The Quest Of Pie” would suggest that the quest, itself, was pie. The quest was not pie, pie was the intended result of the quest. Therefore “The Quest For Pie” was, at least, linguistically sound.

The Beauty Offensive - Untitled
(nominated by An Unreliable Witness)

Why have I done this now? Because I wanted to. Because it’s time. Because I’m not ashamed. And because I don’t want anyone to ever live even one day like I had to for months on end in the not so distant past…lying on the bathroom floor, less than seven stone, too weak to lift my head to vomit, my then partner trying to keep my son away because the scene was just too terrifying.

Where Did It All Go Right? - She looked much older
(nominated by James)

Suddenly, door policy is non-existent. Presumably, they would print a picture of a corpse’s breasts, as long as the rest of the body was cropped. Breasts, it seems, are breasts, in this non-judgmental world.