I suspect cubicle partitions help noise travel. There is a seating area in the hallway near our cubicles. Two women broadcasted their conversation from the seating area today:
Woman 1: “I wonder what Cheryl is going to name the baby.”
Woman 2: “Cheryl’s pregnant?”
Woman 1: “Yeah Cheryl’s pregnant. She’s very pregnant!”
Woman 2: “Oh, I didn’t know.”
Woman 1: “Weren’t you just walking with Cheryl and I a few weeks ago? Cheryl was very pregnant then…”
Woman 1: “But she wasn’t that big! And there’s no polite way to ask if someone is pregnant! Sandra is STILL mad at me for asking if she was pregnant last year!”
Jack and I had to resist the temptation to get up and look at who the women were. The real question is: who’s Sandra?
Enough interns were snickering that the women realized it was time to go.