Highlight of the Day

It's amazing to me that there is currently a phenomenon in the office where people will inform one another of having just had "The highlight of their day".

To clear things up as to quite why I'm amazed (as normally surely this would be quite a positive statement, and something to be embraced): "the highlight of the day" is a euphemism for the act of going for a pooh during office-hours.

Obviously there are some days when going for a constitutional (no, still talking about taking a dump here before any further puerile sniggers start at the back) is indeed the highlight of the working day, but it is nothing short of amazing that this has become commonplace workplace conversation, and nobody bats an eyelid when it is uttered.

If I were to go to the Supermarket this lunchtime and, whilst having the items in my basket scanned (again no double-entendre here, just read it as it is), I mentioned to the checkout person: "After I leave here I'm going to go for a really good shit" I'd imagine this would be considered quite rude.

It is a further example, I guess, that the Software Development department is an odd beast..