Conversation

Location: the office

Date/Time: thursday, june 16, 1:30 pm

Scene: Coworker walking in front of me in the hall carrying a folded up throw rug

Me: Hey, redecorating your office? *wink, wink*

Coworker (looking down at rug in hand): Don't you know?

Me (eyes and smile widening at the prospect of digging the latest intraoffice gossip): No, what?

Coworker: I'm Muslim.

Me (pausing, as I surely do know that he's Muslim, but not seeing any relevance to the current conversation): ...

Coworker (noticing the long pause and blank stare coming from my end of the conversation): We pray on rugs.

Me: I knew that.