Predictably predictable.

I’d like to say I’m a completely spontaneous and unpredictable person.  But I’m not.  However, I’m also not the most predictable person on earth either.  That position is occupied by CCL, who is predictably the most predictable person one could ever meet.

Today, for instance, Doc met me at my office so we could go have lunch at the restaurant next door.  While eating, CCL went walking by on the sidewalk next to the windows where we were seated.  (Predictably, she had her brown t-shirt and brown polyester pants on today, complete with five-year-old safety pin hemming.)  I said to Doc, “Oh, I bet she’s going to the cupcake shop.  And when I get back to the office, she’ll attack & get after me for having not been around to talk her out of going to get a cupcake.”  (CCL has diabetes & couldn’t care less about managing it.  It wouldn’t matter if I duct taped her to her chair, no amount of input from me is going to stop her from going for a cupcake.  But she still likes to pretend like it will.) 

I finished up my delicious lunch & headed back to the office.  I was back for maaaaaaaaybe 2 minutes when CCL came around the corner and said, “There you are.  I came looking for you and you weren’t here.  You were supposed to talk me out of going to get a cupcake.”  I did my obligatory (predictable?) fake chuckle and the usual “oh, sorry” comments, which always result in even more discussion from CCL, despite my comments not remotely being a question or seemingly implying that I want to continue any sort of interaction with her.  Yet, on she goes until my feigned interest wanes enough to finally send a hint for her to go back to her own desk.  It’s a never ending battle.

Last night I thought I’d actually got out of the whole faux interest thing, as CCL seemed to be leaving the office in a hurry.  But that was too good to be true.  Instead, she made sure she stopped by to tell me how she was going home to cuddle with her cats and watch TV.  There are only so many responses a person can give that: “Fun.” “Interesting.” “Oh.” “Enjoy.” “You’re bizarre.”  Yet, somehow CCL manages to take a non-open ended statement and treat it like you just asked her 20 questions at one time.  You can count on it.  Predict it, even.

My current prediction…CCL would absolutely love this ridiculous site: http://invisiblecats.com/