Uncomfortable moment at work [View all]

Last week I was assigned to another office to help out for a few days a week. I showed up and was let in the building by a woman, probably about my age or a bit younger....I knew her name, we had met the previous week and had some small talk. We were the only two there. As I was putting my food in the fridge, she began telling me about her weekend....a situation where her and her boyfriend got into some road rage incident with a male driver....during the story, she told me she thought the guy was following her at first because she had a "nice rack" and she was cute and he needed to get over it. She went on with the story, talking about the string of expletives she and her boyfriend hurled at the guy, in full detail with no bleeping.

Mind you, this is a very corporate office....it's not an auto body shop or a taxi stand or some place where maybe you'd expect a little loose talk.

Now....I've talked to this woman for a total of five minutes, if that, previous to this. I admit, I was blushing. In a professional situation, working in an office, this was the first time I'd had someone, a woman, I barely knew, talk to me in such a way. I wasn't offended....as much as I just didn't know what to say. I kinda chuckled nervously, said "you gotta be careful out there with people these days" and just went to my desk.

Honestly don't know where I'm going with this, other than to say sometimes when it comes to appropriate talk in the workplace, men can be the ones a bit put off....and the gender wars and shit being tossed around here lately got me thinking about it.