Friday, July 29, 2011

Chemists and Chemicals

I had a lunch meeting today with a group of chemists. I knew I would have a story to blog before I got to the restaurant.

Chemist 1: I got some menus for us....Whew, they smell strong!

Me: Yes, I could smell it as soon as I opened the menu.

Chemist 1: I wonder if that's the ink smell.

Chemist 2: I don't know..maybe a solvent?

Chemist 3: What? A smell?

Chemist 4: It's probably the solvent.

Chemist 2: We need to run a GC on it...anybody?

Thankfully, nobody proceeded to tear a piece of the menu off to sample later using the GC.

At least to my knowledge.

6 comments:

Amber said...

Love it!!

Amber said...

By the way, our Chemistry department had lunch today and one topic of conversation was the calibration of volumetric flasks. NERDS!!

Amanda said...

I HEART chemistry dept luncheons haha

Rachel O said...

Had it been our office together it would have been like:

"What font is this?"
"Oh gross why did they use those colors together, that is not appealing."

Mom aka Kimberly said...

Funny!

Mom aka Kimberly said...

Oh, and I bet someone did tear off a piece of the menu!