How to Date Co-workers: NBC's The Office Style

You probably already know the rules and regulations of dating co-workers at your place of employment. But the characters of NBC's "The Office" prefer to be creative. Forget for a moment how you should do it, and consider how you could do it.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Pam and Jim

1. Band together to play practical jokes on other co-workers.

2. Pretend to be supportive of each other's current beaus, but secretly plot to win the other over.

3. Become best friends.

4. Go on a dinner cruise together.

5. Play "get-to-know-each-other" games like "Desert Island" and "Who Would You Do?"

6. Deny any attraction or deeper connection, but continue to stare and pine away for each other regardless of who is watching.

7. Have unofficial dates on the rooftop of your office, with candles, sandwiches and fireworks.

Angela and Dwight

8. Shake each other's hand during office hours, but hold on a little longer than normal.

9. Have a co-worker recount a heroic tale of your significant other so you can imagine the event that you missed. Then go to another co-worker and get the story again, nonchalantly, of course. Repeat until the entire office has repeated the story.

10. Uphold each other's honor no matter what. In the face of losing your job, stand true to the secret of your love, if that is what your special someone wants.

11. Make out on the patio of work-related get-togethers.

12. Brag about your sweetheart to another co-worker, without revealing a name.

Kelly and Ryan

13. Forget middle ground: either obsess over spending every moment of every day together or obsess over how to keep as much distance as possible between you two.

14. Be loud and obnoxious about your relationship in front of co-workers.

15. Imagine what your future kids will look like.

16. Start naming your future children.

17. Delegate roles in the relationship: one of you will be the quiet, unemotional one who prefers detachment and freedom; the other will be the obsessive, controlling, long-winded, jealous one.

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on 8/19/2007 i LOVE the office!!!!