Whether it’s the adrenaline rush of the competition, the crushing agony of an unexpected defeat or just spectating and envisioning as you create your own “special” Office Olympics events…you too can while away hours spent at work, mentally training your mind for the office sports that never were, but definitely should be!

Everyone has that person or persons at work you know that you’d just love to send hurtling down the luge with just a cheap piece of plastic beneath them…and NO protective headgear. Maybe it’s the “hand-raisers” of the office that make your meetings 10 minutes longer than should be. (Maybe it’s you! *gasp* Or maybe it’s your boss, whose expectations never cease to amaze, as unrealistic as they are.

Amuse yourself at that next meeting, when the droning on and on gets too much for you. Envision the truly “special” office-type Olympian events that could be, and/or the likely contenders in them...such as:

That coworker so frosty and “flighty” that you could already see him/her winning a freestyle combination ski jump / aerial / moguls / ice skating all-in-one event. The only problem is that you’re not sure if he/she will ever land that final jump unless someone in another Olympic event hits him/her with a discus…almost as if he/she was a target in some trapshooting event. The winning “flighty” contender probably won the event by completing a double flip, triple-lutz, quadruple toe-loop, splitz combination that had never been tried before.

Then there are the relay races…best team of delegators…but no one wins because they run out of  teammates to “delegate” the baton to! *gasp*

Curling…that crabby coworker who’s been ornery so long that his/her lip has been curled upwards in a nasty snarl so long that you wonder if he/she had time-released Botox surgically implanted there at some point to keep it that way!

Office Pole Vaulter…despite requiring “tools” and resources in the process, he/she simply whooshes up & over at the last moment…claiming all the credit, “tools” simply tossed aside (you possibly even being one of the so-called “tools.”)

Gymnastics…maybe this is your field of expertise…with fluid grace yet stealth & great stamina…you tumble, dance and flip (as opposed to flip-off =p) your boss when you know he or she is on the prowl regarding a project or task…and your part in it!

Shot put…The person who’s always “dropping the ball” on projects. Watch out for your toes…this one’s heavy. And when the competition “cracks,” you’d better be wearing steel-toed boots or shoes!

Be creative! You know your office better than I, so go ahead…amuse yourself at that next meeting by thinking up the Olympic events and just who at your office would compete in which events!

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