Why is it OK to tell you guys about the monster hangnail I'm getting from making 100 trade show CDs due to sticking my finger in the hole, but I'd never tell my office mates?
One personally and he'd offer up that I grab the CD by the sides, in which case I'd have to mention these are mini-CDs and lay in a little CD holder well, so I have to pop a finger in the hole to get them out.
And you got it right of course, it's rhetorical, to gas off workload frustration into this silly world of openspace. It's best not to go there with the office folk.