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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by dtb
So everyone knows I sit on a trading floor. I'm the only girl, and the guys are -- how do you say? -- pretty crude. They're real macho types (on the outside, anyway), and talk about sports, make bets on how many push-ups they can do, burp, fart, talk about the quality of their dumps, throw footballs around the floor, etc.

So, I always get a kick out of the following:

There's always a tv on down here (tuned to some financial channel) and people keep the volume on low from their phones (which have speakers connected to the tv). So, there's some commercial that comes on every 10 minutes or so (it seems), and the background music is that falsetto song "I'm forty-five for a moment..." blah blah blah. When that commercial comes on, every last one of them hums it and sings along (quietly, but it's unmistakeable). Doesn't really match the image they otherwise try constantly to project.

they all sound shorter than me.