10. Free lunch will be served…and they will have gone out of their way to get kosher food for you.
9. It needs to be someone's birthday in your office – Either you will be suddenly facing the most amazing Carvel Ice Cream Cake ever created, or you will find yourself breaking your fast on a vodka tonic during a Post-Work Happy-Hour birthday drinks.
8. You will be overwhelmed and distracted by work so much that you'll forget it's a fast! You'll look up and only have an hour left, which is the precise moment you'll find yourself face to face with the fully stocked Snack-machine and the incessant jingle of the .75cents in your pocket. Painful.
7. The only ads you seem to notice are for Burger King, KFC, Pizza Hut or Subway. Forget fasting, you are suddenly ready to give up Kashrus!
6. Some annoying non-observant heeb will feel the need to bring up to everyone in the office that you are fasting, and naturally, that you are a freak.
5. You paskin for yourself that listorine strips are Ok, then eat an entire pack.
4. When it's a fastday, you are required to complain about our starvation. When its not a fastday, you can go until 5pm without eating a thing, happily! The lesson: fasting is 100% mental (pun intended)
3. Instead of going to work, you took off the day to watch sad videos (which actually ends up making the fast so much harder), then, naturally, you end up watching day time soap operas in memory of the Temple.
2. You realize just how addicted you are to coffee, especially when the headache sets in and you become the most miserable person to ever walk the earth
1. After a very greasy chanukah, a very drunk new years, and 2 weeks off doing nothing but eating crap, you realize: dang maybe I could use more than one of these.
