The Lab
My mom had so many friends and wonderful memories from the lab. I remember back in the 90s when new software was introduced, the logout command for the software was ",bye" and I believe several people at the lab adopted saying "comma bye" when they left for the end of the day. Mom and I would still often use that to end our phone conversations even recently "love you...comma bye!".
Mom was late one day to work in the 80s (most likely due to us kids) and she showed up at work wearing a paperbag on her head. Paperbag jokes were then being made about for years afterwards, my favorite of which was a picture that showed up taped to her locker - with a bunch of people standing with bags over their heads and a handwritten caption below "Kathy's family reuinion".
Mom also said she hated Valentine's Day (even though she would often hang a little bagie of candies on our bedroom door handles for us to find on Valentine's morning)...she said it was the silliest holiday ever and she had no idea why anyone would celebrate it. Several guys at work took this to be a challenge and each year various chocolates and flowers would show up for her at the lab, all of which made her smile. I'm not sure she hated Valentine's Day as much as she pretended.
After retiring from the lab she loved going out for the lunches with all the retired folk.
Her lab friends are an awesome group of people that is the biggest reason why she loved her work so much!
Thanks Liz, Ingo and Christine for pictures. If anyone else has any, feel free to upload them or email them to me.