The Government Shuffle.....

So I just got up from my desk to run downstairs to buy a diet coke at the little convenience store within the building.

My calf muscle had really stiffened up and my opposite thigh is also sore from over-compensating for the calf muscle, so I was limping very slowly. As I came back around a corner, I saw two black women about 10 steps ahead, doing the 'government shuffle'.

(that is the walk that I noticed a LOT of governement workers often do back before I got a quasi-govt job....an incredibly slow shuffle like it's an effort to put one foot ahead of the other. It plays into very bad stereotypes about government workers being lazy and having nothing to do.....not generally true btw.)

Despite being twice hobbled and stiff....I STILL caught up to these ladies and had to slow down! OMG....and it's not like it was two fat old ladies....they were both rail-thin, but moving at that snail-paced walk.

It was too funny.