I heard that!

[unholypet]

I was in the backroom doing my normal work alone one night, when the three various level managers came back there, and did not see me anywhere.

I was being quiet (behind a massive wall of random items).

They continued joking in an off-color manner to the youngest manager about his wife's satisfaction in their bedroom, and his overall phallic health.

When one of them forgot the name syphillis, I promptly rolled it out, they screamed," OH SHIT, UNHOLYPET, I almost pissed my pants. We did not know you were there,etc."

The youngest manager has yet to look me in the eye since.

[Sparky]

ROFL!

[Opalin]

heh, unfortunate for them. grats on ninja skill +1 though

[EricKei]

grats on ninja skill +1 though

Heehee... I can do that, too...I tend to sneak up on people who are somehow totally unaware of my presence -- but it only works when I am NOT trying to do it >_< Keep in mind that I am not exactly "petite". I'm hard to miss, visually o_O And yet, many people I know in person have had times where I will walk up behind them (to get past them, or to ask a question) and they nearly jump out of their shoes when I start talking.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Mrs. IA used her ninja skills one day back when she worked in an IT office. She had a single office, and usually kept the door locked. One of the other managers (not hers) decided she was sleeping in her office and had decided to get in there to expose her. While he was proclaiming his intentions to a co-worker, Mrs. IA quietly walked up behind him and quietly asked, "What do want Ed?" Ed was stunned and speechless.

[pzychobitch]

OMG that is mint I spit out my beer laughing so hard!

[RootedPhoenix]

That is too fantastic. lol

[HawaiianShirts]

I used to do stuff like that, too, when I worked for a lab. I was always catching the receptionists off-guard, even (especially) when I thought I was being pretty obvious. I lost track of the number of times I startled one of the girls. I once went up to the reception desk, dropped of a stack of documents in the To Be Faxed tray, and went back to my computer. The receptionists hadn't seen me, so I sent them an IM that said, "Ninja Fax strikes again!"

It's not nearly as funny as a mystery voice reminding someone of the name of an STD, though.

And suddenly I'm imagining Unholypet as the announcer from that old Password game show (the original, I think) who would use an unnecessarily low and soft conspiratorial whisper to tell the home viewers what word the players were trying to guess. "The password is... 'syphilis.'"