I keep a level on my dry erase board in my office at work.
In one of the rooms that was my office in the building where I have
worked for over 30 years I would sit in the room and feel like
something was off. There was something wrong. And I never could
really figure it out for several months.
Because my employer is not very good at providing some of the things
that make office work nice I bought my own dry erase board. I brought
it in and used a small level and my own tools to put it up on the
wall. I made sure that I was putting it up straight because you just
do that with a dry erase board or pictures or whatever.
But even though I had use the level and nature of the bubbles right in
the middle and it was level it still didn't look right. I sit at my
desk and look at it, that things not level! I pulled the level tool
out of my drawer and put it on top of the dryer he subordinate would
show that it's level. Used one of those apps on my phone to show
whether it was level or not.
One night when I was in there after 10 PM I went and grabbed a
stepladder and checked the level of the drop ceiling above my office.
And that's when I discovered it was not level or straight.
It was off by quite a bit. The bubble went up fast and the leveling
tool stayed off-center when I put it up against the bottom of the drop
ceiling. I tried several different places and figured out that was
what was off.
So now I have proof that things were not quite right in my office.
Ironic, as always. But I needed to figure out a way to indicate that things were okay despite that.
That's when I got a piece of tape and rigged something so that the
level would sit right on top of my dry erase board and show that it
was straight and level. That what I had done was straight and level
despite what others had done like the drop ceiling. Now I see that
level on top of my dry erase board in my office or wherever I happen
to have it I take a deep breath and I smile. And I reassure myself
that everything is all right.
