L - What's Her Story...

This is just an introduction for L.

L. What can be said about L? If I was asked to describe my environment on this project before L became my neighbor, I would say peaceful and quiet. L and her teammate and dear friend S like to talk. All day long. Loudly. They can talk weather, intolerable coworkers, cars, food, and volumes on the amount of time they work per week, day, hour, or take for lunch. One key problem is that, while L and I are in separate cubicles and have a fabric-lined partition separating us, our faces are angled towards each other and are about 4 feet apart. Now, L has to project her voice forcefully to speak to S who sits comparatively far from L and I. Bottomline - L yells in my general direction while talking to S. At times, I can hear them chatting from great distances. Imagine, the volume that you would need to project your voice while attending a NASCAR event...that is their Inside Voice.

One other interesting fact that seems to not fit with the loud talking characteristic. Have you ever walked passed a dog that has had a rough life? A dog that was, maybe, mistreated as a puppy... The poor little guy sticks to walking right beside the walls because it feels safer. Eye contact is out because the pup is just too shy and timid to even look at a passer-by. In fact, L will walk past you and apologize. Why? I don't know. She would apologize for holding the door open for you.

This is just scratching the surface of the complexity of L.