My sister and I love to sing that little diddy Michael does in the Office episode where he has to sign a bunch of reports all at once, the one where he's rhythmically tapping on his coffee cup with a pencil:
"I don't want to work, I just want to bang on this cup all day"
But little did we know what we had wrought all those years. Because when we were at a summer party where the Office was on in the background, this episode came on. And yes, we were desperately excited to be able to sing along with the entire crowd in a triumphant refrain of the human spirit. So as Michael starts to bang, we all start to wail and smile....
Only we weren't smiling because Michael doesn't say 'cup', oh no friends, the devil won on this day because you know what Michael said on this TV? Michael said "bang.....on.....this...... MUG". Yeah you heard me right, he said MUG!?!1 Everyone looked at us like we were from another planet, "did you just say...cup?", "you know that's a coffee mug right?".
We tried to explain what had happened but nobody was willing to admit what was painfully obvious to me and my sister. Which is that we had just been thrown into an alternate reality where the only difference was that the words of this office episode song had changed from cup to mug.
now we spend our time just praying that our next leap is the leap back home