One fine morning I was setting up the work space, there was a man standing there drinking a diet Coke, smiling. "I don't drink coffee" he announced, "but I always enjoy my diet Coke". He took another satisfied swig. My lovely assistant peeped up from her desk and said, "you know, if you drop a cockroach in there it dissolves".
His face dropped and he walked away...
My response would have been, "got a cockroach handy?"
Darlene would have had a ready retort I'm sure.
Mine might have been, "why don't you just use that one on your tie?"
Which reminds me, speaking of cockroaches, of a time I was at a business meeting in New Orleans when a gekko crawled up on my desk from somewhere. Gekkos are common in New Orleans, which is cool since they stalk and eat cockroaches. So this one's sitting there perfectly still as reptiles do, and some lady in a business suit from out of town walks up, admiring what she thinks is a plastic gekko. "Oh it looks so real!"
Just then the gekko turns its head to look at her.
I've never seen a lady in a dress jump that high.