edit: I showed my wife the comments on this post and she said “I like that everyone is agreeing with me.”
I still love the monkey. Oh, and the wife.
Do you work at a desk in an office? You can keep it there, and then if someone comes in to talk to you, you can lean in to the monkey as if to listen to its whispers, and say “Monkey doesn’t like that idea!” Lean in again. “Monkey is getting upset! You should go now. Bad things happen when Monkey gets upset…”
Perhaps give it a baseball cap, a kids piano and some fancy lighting.
Or a manicure…💅
Well, there’s no accounting for taste.
True, I could never account for why my wife seems to like me.