That is odd as I don’t desk in the kitchen either.
I have said it before and I’ll say it again. There is no greater division between two people than the division created by the English tongue.
I still remember, back when I was teaching ESL (which was so long ago it was called ESL) someone asking me about a song by, I think it was Genesis, where the lyric was, “In your arms I feel so safe and so secure.” This poor student from Ecuador was trying to understand the difference between being safe and secure. I don’t think I did very well.
Yes, well, if you haven’t grown up in America, where the English language is an amalgam of many different languages, the difference between “safe” and “secure” is subtle. Most Americans don’t understand it, either.