The co-worker formerly known as Dirty Dancer has a new nickname. I’ve taken to calling him Juice.
He was in the Bosslady’s presence one day and she was visibly nervous. As he was relating the story to me, he made a joke (let’s be clear, it was a joke) about her being nervous because she was so attracted to him. And this is probably crucial to the story, but I can’t remember if it was him or me that followed that with, “Once you go black you never go back.”
You see where this is going?
Because once you make the “once you go black you never go back” comment, it’s inevitably followed by, “The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice.” He’s the one that said that, for sure.
So I took it upon myself to go around telling various other co-workers to start calling him Juice and then ask why, and if he wouldn’t tell them to come back to me and I’d tell them. He had the nerve to get all embarrassed. Most folks got an abbreviated version of the story that doesn’t include the part about the Bosslady. “You know the phrase, ‘The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice’? Yeah….”
