You hand a bank teller an envelope, and when she asks, "What's this?" you realize you just dropped the company's deposit in a mailbox.

A woman comes into the store, you turn to the other salesman and say, "I waited on the last fat ugly old lady. This one's yours." Your boss is standing behind you. It's his wife.

While your boss is at lunch, you sneak in and look at some confidential information on his computer. You spill coffee on the keyboard. It shorts out.

You return from a week's vacation to find that you had scheduled this week as vacation, not last week.

You take a "sick" day. The next morning the boss asks you, "So, how was the fishing on Rock Creek yesterday?"

The Word of the Day for February 28 is:

Example sentence:
The critics loved David's performance in the new play, declaring that he took a rather mundane script and made it scintillate with wit and excitement.

Did you know?
The history of "scintillate" began with Latin "scintilla," which means "spark." scintilla in turn sparked the development of the verb "scintillare," meaning "to sparkle." "Scintillate" is the English version of "scintillare." Though it sometimes means literally "to sparkle," it more often means "to sparkle" in a figurative sense—that is, to be lively, or to perform brilliantly. "Scintillate" is not the only word we get from "scintilla." There is also scintilla itself (used as a noun meaning "a little bit"), "scintillant" (an adjective describing something that scintillates), and "scintillation" (which, among other things, means "a brilliant outburst").