A Sad Day Indeed

The day started out fine, calm blue skies, rather chilly wind but not arctic. Got into work, morning ran smoothly until Chowda returned from vacation. He was in Myrtle Beach last week with Lady Lawyer and came back to work lookin' all kinds of tan. He came up to my desk and huffed to get my attention. I could tell something was bothering him and asked what the deal was? His face got rather blotchy with obvious discomfort (for a moment I thought he was gonna fart or crap his pants) and presented me with a going away cadeau (gift). He used broken language, grunts and hand gestures as he told me about how he and Lady Lawyer picked out a rather nice silver bracelet and had it engraved with my initials. I wanted to sob but managed to not go all kinds of misty on him. It was hard and I spent the rest of the day feeling like this: