He also chimed in and enjoyed listening to everyone’s stories about their time on the road for work. Then a drunken Mary went up to him, hugged him tightly, and told him she loved him and that he was her “work husband.”
“It was all innocent on the surface, but she might have been a bit drunk and just didn’t let go of her tight hug,” he said.
“Also, I hate that phrase, as I do have a wife that I promised to be with forever and not just [during] non-working hours.”
After a few moments, he noticed some of his coworkers were staring at him and Mary, so he took her hands off his shoulders and playfully told her she was his “work sister.”
Then, things took a turn for the worse. Mary turned around, sat at her desk, and began sobbing quietly. He tried apologizing, but she snapped at him, telling him he embarrassed her.
He tried to explain that the phrase work husband makes him uncomfortable and told her people were giving them dirty looks when she said it. Therefore, he was just trying to make sure people weren’t suspicious of what she said.
“We talked for a few minutes afterward, and Mary calmed down,” he recalled.
“She hugged me again and left. I felt really guilty afterward because I could see Mary’s point, and I made her sound like a creep by implying that she meant something inappropriate when she called me her work husband.”
Well, he felt bad about embarrassing Mary; he can’t deny that the situation made him uncomfortable.
Should he feel bad for calling Mary his work sister?
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