This phenomenon involves investing time into a serious or important conversation with a coworker while your back is turned to him or her, and, while you are still talking to this person, they leave the room unbeknownst to you, leaving you feeling frustrated and foolish. "Paul" comes from the High Norse verbs "Pa": "to vanish into" and "uhl" (later after Visagoth invasions of Northern Europe spelled) "ul": "land of shadows and dust."
Scene: Locus en Munus
Paul: "So, B, how was your weekend?"
B: "Pretty rough, man, my mom died, my wife left with our dog, and then I had to drive to Houston to switch out my Dad's oxygen tank and colostomy bag, and then..." (realizing the room is eerily quiet, B turns to find Paul absent; crestfallen, a single tear rolls down his cheek. He had been pauled yet again).
Pauled or Paulied
Noun / pronoun
Noun/ pauled
To brake something without adequate force
Pro noun/ to have Paulied
To have tried to fix a minor problem only to creat a bigger problem
"For fuck sake paul, you've pauled it.
When you act too quickly and fuck up a situation that would otherwise be perfectly fine.
Why did you do that! You really pauled that up!
To be the recipient of something bad from Paul.
Paul did it to me again! I got Pauled….
One is gets incredibly drunk every single night
Fenley why are you pauled on a Tuesday night
to be pauled is to be ignored and left on read mainly when asking to do something
i asked my friends if they wanted to go but they pauled me