Unexpected Guests:

Use an intercom to ascertain identity of visitor, By this method, you may avoid opening door and risk of inadvertantly inviting them inside. It is crucial that you use this approach at all times - even when front door is open and visitor is plainly visible behind screen door. Feign blindness.

Provide an unwelcoming atmosphere at entrance - no coatracks, tables, chairs or ironing boards that could hold coats. Should visitor enter, assume military "at ease" stance with your hands clasped behind your back. Maintain this position so that visitor cannot hand their coat to you.

If guest still enters and wants to sit, prepare furniture by placing large, angular rocks under cushions. Hide old rotten half-eaten bananas and unfinished yogurt cups (with children, there is always a constant and abundant supply on hand) in strategically chosen areas of furniture to soil your visitor's clothing so that you may hurry them off to dry cleaner and resume work.

We at WAHumor hope that you will find this basic primer to be of some use and always be mindful of importance of proper etiquette for work at home lifestyle.

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"Ya GOTTA see this cool fort me and Billy Scuzbucket built, Grandma!!! And we got grenades, napalm, coupla ICBMs...WAAAY cool!!!"

"Whazzat? D'ja want something, sweetie? I'll be right there...just five minutes..."

Life is like that...

"Are you Dilbert Greenbaumgarten? Sir, are you aware that your children are conducting a warehouse sale of stolen merchandise in your garage? You'll have to come with us, sir."

"Yeah, yeah...garage sale, ahh...be with ya in five minutes...just leave money in coffee can on folding table, K??"

Everyday.

Just five minutes...

Whoa...super-important e-mail...ahh, look, be with ya in five minutes...seen kids?? Honey? Hello?? Coulda sworn we had furniture before...

With two boys, a dog, a cat, a wife and a household to keep together to boot, Dan Reinhold is editor of WAHumor to hang on to his sanity by showing how insane work-at-home community can be. Work at home? You deserve a laugh!

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With two boys, a dog, a cat, a wife and a household to keep together to boot, Dan Reinhold is the editor of WAHumor to hang on to his sanity by showing how insane the work-at-home community can be. Work at home? You deserve a laugh!

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