Work Spice

First of all, what is a work spice? The origin of the word work comes from (for all of those Big Fat Greek Wedding fans) the Greek word ergon meaning to labor or be employed. Spice is the plural form of the word spouse...work with me here...mouse: mice, house: hice, spouse: spice.

Where does this come from? I have a work spice and the Queen knows about it. Fact is, she encourages it.

There is a considerable amount of background on the work spice. I was married to my co-worker for about 12 years. My first wife, Teri, and I met because she was transferred to the Air Force base as my subordinate. After a few weeks of knowing each other, we married (there is a totally different blog entry for this topic).

After many years of marriage to my co-worker, when it came to working alone in the another location without my wife, I was at a total loss. It was like life was spinning out of control and I could not detox about work with a person who has an clue of what I am talking about. The Queen tried to understand and seemed genuinely interested, but when you look into her eyes, you could tell I was speaking Lakota, and she was speaking French.

So, I found people at work to turn into my work spice. They tend to be female in my case, but a work spice can be either gender. They listen to you vent about the crap at work, the weather, sports or anything having to do with toilet paper and duct tape.

There are certain rules when it comes to work spice:

  1. Absolutely no SEX
  2. Do not hide you work spice from your real spice
  3. Keep your home life problems at home
  4. Whipped cream should never be mentioned in the same sentence as your work spice unless it has Baskin Robbins or Starbucks included
  5. Oh hell, just don't mention whipped cream

This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). You can have Big Love without being in Big Trouble. In my case, just having the work spice means I can keep the home spouse content as long as you live by the rules.

At first the Queen was not too keen on the idea of another woman in my life taking my attention during the day. Now, she recognizes my work spouse and has had actual communications with her.

My work spouse has even invited the family to spend the weekend with them in their beach house.

Oh, one more thing, having work spice can work one way or both ways. I am also the work spouse of my work spouse.

Did you know...

Polygamy means multiple spouses. The most common form is polygyny, where a man can have many wives. Less common, but found in some societies such as Tibet, is polyandry, where a woman can have many husbands.

Comments

Nirek said…
Ohh John. can't a fren be fill in the role of work spouse...
its just u use different terminology for that. people do talk abt all shits in office to their dear fren in office.
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