2015-03-21

Q: Dear 100 Hour Board,

I want to pinch coworkers at work tomorrow, St. Patrick's Day, if they're not wearing green. How weird would it be if I pinched, or even asked why they're not wearing green, coworkers who I don't even know but have seen around?

-Devon the Barber

A:

Dear Devon,

If you don't know these people, please don't pinch them.

Please.

- Haleakalā

A:

Dear Devon,

I think you could tease people about not wearing green, but actual pinching should be saved for people you know well enough to have physical contact with in other situations.

On a tangentially related note, when I was about three years old I was very distressed that my dad wasn't wearing green to work on St. Patrick's Day. I was convinced that everyone at the accounting firm he worked at would be pinching him all day and I was in tears at the thought of that happening to my dad. He tried to reassure me by saying, "It's okay, I'm wearing green underwear." I looked at him with the typical disgust of a toddler who thinks someone is being ridiculous, and said, "Daddy. Your underwear isn't green, it's gray!"

My parents thought maybe it was time to buy some new garments.

-Zedability

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