This past week was a bit stressful, with several major deadlines coming due at once. One of my coworkers doesn't handle that sort of stress well, and would ask me - quite literally - every fifteen minutes if I'd had updates on any of them. While I'm fairly stable under stress, that was a little much for me; rather than bring in my nerf guns and teach him the folly of his ways, I simply decorated a desk plant I have and placed it where he'd see it when he wheeled his chair back to ask me questions:
