The Art of the Whisper

I have been in government "work" for almost 15 years now. And in every posting that I have undertaken, cubicle-dwelling bureaucrats have perfected that scornful art of the whisper -- be it the long hours of whispering conversations over the phone or the secretive whispers among fellow fat bureaucrats over the water cooler.

I have tried whispering over the phone, but my conversation partners almost always could not understand me. How do these fat, lazy government bureaucrats do it?!! I swear there was this one black woman who would whisper-talk over the phone for hours, and I could not make out what the heck she talked about -- not even one sentence. The ways of the bureaucrats!

--Jon Dunne.